[mythtv-users] Re:Question on software RAID

[David Zanetti]

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On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Martin Smith wrote:

[Can you expand a RAID-5 set]
> Dave Zanetti Wrote:
> > Nope.
> 
> There's a utility called raidreconf that can allgedly do this. Whether you'd
> risk using it is another question and I haven't tried it myself

Yeah, I'm not sure I'd trust that :) But the larger problem is that the
useful range of disks for RAID-5 is 3-5, more than 5 starts to run the
risk of getting 2 failures.

> Personally I'd recommend using LVM regardless of the underlying disk
> arrangement. It's just so much more flexible.

Indeed. Although I don't use LVM on my myth box (It's just a single 200G
spindle, good enough :) ), I do on the other servers here to make
re-arranging things easier. 

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