[vdr] Re: Default video dir

[Lauri Tischler <lwgt@iki.fi>]

Stefan Lucke wrote:
> On Samstag, 15. Januar 2005 19:14, Lauri Tischler wrote:
>
>
> > Assume I have good old Linuxbox that I want to use as VDR,
> > it has one disk, size 20GB, no room for recordings,
> > so I make directory as /var/video
> > Also make directory /video and link it to /var/video or
> > direct VDR directly to /var/video
> >
> > Then I add some physical disks and mount them as
> > /var/video/dsk1
> > /var/video/dsk2
> > /var/video/dsk3
>
> Adding disks is ok, but why in that way ? Use lvm (one mount point)
> and extend the the logical volume as you need.
I have Debian sarge, maybe I need to look into lvm,
generally I dont trust soft-raids or lvms,
unless they are mirrored over different channels or
controllers.
What happens if one of your lvm disks crashes ?