[mythtv-users] Anyone using LVM2 w/ ext3 for video storage

[Andrew Close]

On Mar 31, 2005 11:28 PM, Devan Lippman <devan.lippman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wanted to create a mount point that I could easily add capacity to
> later as I needed.  To do this I created an LVM2 volume (currently
> caontaining only one pv) and formatted ext3 over this.  When I went to
> boot the machine up the next day it was unable to mount the volume or
> even filecheck it.  I'm wondering if I rebuild this volume will this
> become a common occurance?  If so is there anyone who's found a more
> reliable solution?

Hey Devan,

i recently set up LVM and screwed it up twice. :)  it wasn't too
difficult to start over after figuring out how to delete the
partitions/volumes i had created.  a good guide is here:
http://knoppmythwiki.homelinux.org/index.php?page=LvmHowTo
i used XFS instead of ext3.  both XFS and JFS are optimized for large
file sizes, such as video, so they are probably a better choice that
ext3.  they are much more reliable now than they were a year or so
ago.