On 10/25/05, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Adeff wrote: > > >Guys, something that is coming up a lot lately on the users list, mostly due > >to HDTV file sizes, is how to "merge" more than one drive. Right now LVM or > >RAID 0 are the only real options. > > > >So I'm wondering if any of the dev's have though about allowing for mutliple > >directories for storage, or perhaps using a: > >xxx\MythTV\1 > >xxx\MythTV\2 > >xxx\MythTV\3 > >xxx\MythTV\... > >setup where one could just mount new drives to allow MythTV to increase its > >storage space? > > > > > This has been discussed before and I think many agree it would be a > worthwhile idea, it also hasn't gone high enough on anyone's list to > code it probably because LVM does a 'good enough' job of handling this. > > Kevin > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-dev mailing list > mythtv-dev@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev >
In addition to LVM, someone wrote a script called "myth balance" (or similar) that runs nightly and moves files over a configured set of devices and then symlinks them back to the /video/ directory. A clever hack that would probably work for a lot of people. Something like this could probably be integrated into the standard backend distribution and make life easier for a lot of folks who don't want to deal with LVM for whatever reason. -neil _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list mythtv-dev@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
