David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Milan Andric wrote: > >>there's a problem with that. >>1) no wired network to bedroom, just wireless 802.11B 5-8Mb/s? > > mmm - if that speed is reliable then it's fine - but if you end up with > the connection dropping with an nfs mount trying to write then my > experience is that ivtv goes AWOL. I'd avoid a wireless connection > unless you feel it's as stable as wire.
I found that 802.11b was not quite able to keep up with PVR-350 encoded material, but 802.11g can handle at least two streams at the same time. >>>But you'll have no redundancy until you buy the 3rd drive. >>>You also can't 'add drives as time goes by' to a raid 5. >>> >>unless i use the 'missing' trick? >> > nope. > The only way to add drives is an unsupported program called raidreconf The web page for raidreconf http://unthought.net/raidreconf/ says it has a current maintainer, and say no bugs are known, so maybe this program shouldn't be discounted completely. I plan to use it when I add a fourth drive to my RAID-5 array, so if anyone has any more information about it, I'd like to hear it. It's also mentioned in the Software RAID Howto: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-10.html#ss10.1 Maybe this program should be mentioned on http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/AdministrationSoftware_2fLvmRaid > Sean's idea of lots of mini-raid5'ed partitions is very interesting > though. I haven't thought it through. I think you could do it just using > the lvm 'move blocks' approach (ie without needing to repeatedly > shrink/grow the filesystem - just one growfs at the end). > I'd rate it as lvm/md experts only (which isn't that hard TBH) Hmm, I don't see any posts by anyone named Sean in this thread. What idea did he suggest? Dan
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