[vdr] Re: Several Harddisks

[Juergen Scherer <juergen.scherer@gmx.de>]

Hi Matthias,

> i tried to use vdr with 3 harddisks, so i mounted it as /video0, /video1
> and /video2.

Is it important to have the disks on three mountpoints?

If not, you should try it with LVM feature of a current kernel.
I did it this way and as you see below have a 70GB video directory
consisting of two harddisks.

This works very well and can even be enlarged with more drives
if needed and without any disturbance to existing data.

You even gain some disk performance that way.

My config:

vdr:~ # df
..
<snip>
..
/dev/vg_video/lv_video
                      61778076  31331692  30446384  51% /video
This is the logical volume

                      
vdr:~ # cat /proc/lvm/global
LVM driver version 0.9.1_beta2 (18/01/2001)

Total:  1 VG  2 PVs  1 LV (1 LV open 1 times)

Global: 273872 bytes malloced   IOP version: 10   9:24:06 active

VG:  vg_video  [2 PV, 1 LV/1 open]  PE Size: 4096 KB
  Usage [KB/PE]: 69017600 /16850 total  69017600 /16850 used  0 /0 free
  PVs: [AA] hdd1                  30015488 /7328    30015488 /7328           0 /
0
       [AA] hdc5                  39002112 /9522    39002112 /9522           0 /
0
    LV:  [AWDL  ] lv_video                  69017600 /16850    1x open





Greetings,
 Juergen                            mailto:juergen.scherer@gmx.de