[TriLUG] LVM planning help

[Owen]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 01:36:38PM -0500, Ken Mink wrote:
> I've got multiple drives in my Myth box. I partitioned the drives so
> that I've got mirrored /boot and /root.

That's what I'm thinking I'll do - mirror what's relevant to get things
up and running fairly quickly.

> Then I've got lvm holding the rest of the two drives as one large
> logical volume. That space is used for /myth, which holds all the
> video. Since it's just television, I am not worried that if I lose a
> drive I lose the contents of the file system.

Mine's not just television, which is why I'm concerned about losing
stuff. I have all our frequently used DVD's ripped to the drive, and
have been working away at transcoding them into avi files containing
just the important titles and chapters, and deinterlacing them where
relevant. If you've ever done that with children's animated stuff you'll
know that it can be a real pain. That's why it's not critical, but I
would prefer not to lose it.

Thanks for the feedback.

Owen