[mythtv-users] Linux software raid question

Matt Nelson matt at frozenatom.com
Tue Jun 3 16:52:14 UTC 2008


I did come across those but when costing out my build, but I was trying to
create a cheap stable enclosure setup so I could spend the majority of my $$
on the drives themselves.  I have really been happy with my setup.  The
system was up for over 130 Days until I upgraded to .21, and I even had a
drive fail that I was able to hot swap the replacement and rebuild the array
without any downtime!


On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:10 AM, James Klaas <jklaas at appalachian.dyndns.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Matt Nelson <matt at frozenatom.com> wrote:
> > On one of my mythtv backend servers I host my fileserver that stores all
> of
> > my media on two raid5 sets totaling 12 drives that are all attached via
> > sata.  These are all attached externally, and that is where my question
> > lies, if I connect these drives incorrectly will my raid sets die, or
> does
> > it not matter where they are connected since there is some metadata that
> > tells the linux software raid that it belongs to a certain raid set?
> >
> >
> > Also since I love seeing how people are setting up their mythboxes,
> attached
> > is a picture of the back of the myth backend server mentioned above.
> >
> > http://img115.imageshack.us/my.php?image=05310720471ot5.jpg
>
> Did you consider using a SATA port multiplier
> (http://www.satadrives.com/saii1to5popo.html)?  I think these are
> pretty well supported by recent kernels, although I'm not sure how
> well they're supported by non-SiliconImage chipsets.  Does anyone have
> an opinion on those?
>
> James
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