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Re: [LUG] lvm or md

 

stinga wrote:
> G'day all,
> 
> Moving my mythtv setup from analouge to Satellite, now the files sizes  
> are a bit larger, so I need more disk space.
> 
> Am I better using lvm or md to tie disks together?

LVM is a little more complicated, but probably more flexible in the long
run.  These days I tend to use MD if I want straight mirroring of a pair
of disks or RAID5 across a group of disks I'm unlikely to want to extend
later and LVM for anything else.

James

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