Hello all, I'm setting up my first Mythtv system on Gentoo and had a question about storage. What kind of problems will I run into if I base all my storage for recorded programs, stored movies, MP3s, etc. on external USB or firewire drives? For now I am putting my frontend and backend on the same system (Asus Pundit-r 3Ghz, 200GB HD) which only has 1 HD bay but I plan to move to separate frontend and backend setup if I find Mythtv and I get along ok. External drives seem like a good solution due to ease of expansion the ability to migrate them fairly easily to other systems.
Sounds to me like you should consider your next move to separate your front and backends and use the Pundit as a frontend and get a chassis with extra storage bays for a bigger "in a closet somewhere" backend. I currently have 4 IDE slots in my combo backend and since I've filled my 3 200gb disks, I'm considering moving my DVD burner to external and putting in a 4th drive in the box.
Should I avoid I stick with one directory per drive and avoid JFS/XFS? Is performance to low? Are their know problems with JFS or XFS on these kinds of drives? If I add all the drives to one files system will the spanned file systems be difficult to get back up on a different system that recognize the drives in a different order than the original? I am fairly familiar with JFS on SCSI drives using HP-UX (as of a couple years ago) but have never used it on Linux or with IDE. Thanks in advance! Henry _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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