[mythtv-users] Is there a distributed filesystem available?

[Nedim Cholich]

On 6/21/06, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/21/06, Matthias Thyroff <Matthias at thyroff.net> wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2006 08:29 schrieb Steve Hodge:
> > > I think you're still missing the point. A backup is not necessary -
> > > losing some recordings isn't that much of a problem. But if you've got
> > > multiple drives in your machine anyway, it'd be nice to not lose all
> > > your recordings, and it'd be nice to be able to set that up without
> > > using RAID. RAID 5 costs you capacity and is less easy to add or
> > > remove drives from.
> >
> > You could set up a  userjob to move the files to other filesystems in a
> list
> > of configured filesystems, and create a link in your original mythtv
> > filesystem, and configure myth to follow links when deleting. The
> filesystems
> > are configured in a config file. The script checks for free space on
> each fs
> > and moves the file to the filesystem with most free space.
> >
> > Filesystems Could be additional disks or network shares (does "follow
> links
> > when deleting" work?).
>
> I think that would work.


Someone mentioned a patch to Mythtv that would allow it to record to
multiple directories. Wouldn't that in essence solve this problem?

I too am nervous about having all my Mythtv storage under LVM (as
recommended by all the HOWTOs). I was thinking for a while how to mitigate
this. My OS partition is already RAID 1 on two 40Gb disks by I realize doing
this for recordings would be wasteful/overcomplicated.
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