[mythtvnz] Intro/Background

[Robin Gilks]

> Hadley Rich wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:51:04 Matt Crampton wrote:
>>
>>> At the moment, I bought another 320GB HDD to put in, but am debating
>>> whether to do a clean install with Fiesty (Ubuntu 7.04) or keep what
>>> I've
>>> got. Also wanting to setup LVM as well, so I can add more hard drives
>>> over
>>> time, as the case can hold upto 6 and it's got enough SATA connections
>>> onboard.
>>>
>>
>>
> I'm running on a fresh install of Feisty 7.04 and was convinced away
> from using LVM towards the storage groups approach by online docs. The
> reason was that if a HD fails it sounded far from trivial to replace it
> and maintain the LVM volume. Storage groups were more like a lizard's
> tail... just grow another one and resume :)

I've just run into how good storage groups are!!

I wanted to retire a disk and replace it with a larger one but since I
wanted to test the new disk/controller combination first, I set it up on a
new mount point and added it to the default storage group along side the
existing one. Since it has more space than the existing one it is used in
preference to the old disk so my testing gets done.

Come time when I switch to it, I only have to copy the recording from the
old disk to the new, unmount the old and remove it from the storage group
- no database changes required since the new disk is already in the
default group.

I tried it last night by just copying a few files across and unmounting
the original disk they had been recorded to and it still just worked!!

Well impressed :-)


-- 
Robin Gilks