<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 9, 2008 7:43 PM, R. G. Newbury <<a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org">newbury@mandamus.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br></div></div>I didn't say anything about raid. I'm just talking about having a<br>relatively small disk dedicated to the OS only. It has some partitioning<br>to separate things which should/must be saved from operational things<br>
which can be overwritten if a new OS version is installed. For a myth<br>box, the database is the most important thing, plus copies of the setup<br>so we don't have to fight to restore things...and that is actually not a<br>
very large list of files. And there is no advantage in 'raid'ing the OS<br>disk.<br><br>All recorded programs go on other disk(s). With storage groups, you can<br>add storage disks basically at will. Since these are 'just' tv programs,<br>
I don't think that a raid array is warranted *for this sort of data*.<br>Some people do use raid storage, but that presents its own problems.<br><br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Sorry, I meant to respond to Dan, who wrote:<br>
</div><div> </div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><div><br><br>Yes. Don't use LVM -- it's overkill. You could lay it out like this:<br>
<br>disk1, 40GB:<br>p1 /boot 2G ext2<br>p2 /swap 2G swap<br>p3 / 20G RAID-1 mirror<br>p4 /extra 24G ext3 store your database files here, use as<br> temp space<br><br>disk2, 500GB:<br>
<br>p1 / 20G RAID-1 mirror<br>p2 /video0 480G myth storage<br><br>For database performance, you want it on a disk separate from<br>your video storage. But you want to back it up nightly to the<br>root partition, so you can recover if needed. A quick cron<br>
script for that, run nightly as mythtv:<br> </div></blockquote></div>