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[vdr] Re: AW: Re: OT: SuSE 8.0?
Andreas Schultz wrote:
>
> On Thursday 02 May 2002 10:33, Nano wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Your link says it supports LBA48.
> > My link says it supports XFS.
> > These two are absolute requirements for my VDR system,
> > so YEAH I can install SuSE 8.0 on my VDR system out
> > of the box!
> > Congratulations, SuSE! Good job!
> >
> > Of course, easter is not exactly middle of april. ;-)
> > Never mind, better late than without XFS or LBA48...
>
> There is one problem though. It won't let you install the root filesystem onto
> an LVM volume.
No problem for me. ;-)
In fact, I would advise against it.
After all, using LVMs multiply the damage done
by a disk crash.
I have 3 disks in my vdr (under SuSE 8.0):
One 120 GB disk mounted as /
One 160 GB disk mounted as /video
One 160 GB disk mounted as /video2
I do not use vdr's capability to access multiple disks,
as it distributes the files evenly and thus does almost
the same damage as a logical volume. Instead, I linked
some of my top level subdirectories from /video to /video2
and to /videor/vdr (which is on the / disk):
/home/cko> ls -l /video
total 1048
lrwxr-xr-x 1 cko users 14 Mar 27 02:22 Action -> /video2/Action
drwxr-xr-x 32 cko users 4096 May 1 19:09 Comedy
lrwxr-xr-x 1 cko users 15 Feb 14 08:38 Fantasy -> /video2/Fantasy
drwxr-xr-x 5 cko users 55 May 2 03:10 Horror
lrwxr-xr-x 1 cko users 17 Apr 22 01:14 Kids -> /videor/vdr/Kids/
drwxr-xr-x 5 cko users 89 Apr 13 23:03 Misc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 cko users 17 Jan 12 17:44 Music -> /videor/vdr/Music
drwxr-xr-x 17 cko users 4096 May 1 21:36 SciFi
lrwxr-xr-x 1 cko users 15 Feb 14 08:38 Science -> /video2/Science
lrwxr-xr-x 1 cko users 16 Apr 8 23:32 Thriller -> /video2/Thriller
-rw-r--r-- 1 cko users 1063523 May 2 11:19 epg.data
/home/cko> df -hT
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 xfs 114G 62G 53G 54% /
/dev/hda1 ext2 15M 4.2M 10M 30% /boot
/dev/hdb1 xfs 153G 140G 12G 92% /video2
/dev/hdc1 xfs 153G 129G 23G 85% /video
That setup works very well for me and avoids the risks
caused by logical volumes.
The only drawbacks are that I have to do a little bit
of manual load leveling every now and then and that
vdr does not display the free space correctly.
Carsten.
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