I've read the posts about the dangers of LVM, but TV isn't important enough to me to invest the extra money in extra disk space for RAID.

Is there any way to span recordings across multiple drives without LVM? I have three drives available and I don't mind losing some of my recordings if a drive fails, I just don't want to lose all my recordings due to a single drive failure.

I've had hard drives fail in the past, but I've had more drives last long after their small size made them just not worth taking up IDE ports and case space. It seems like an acceptable risk to have spread my recordings across three separate non-redundant disks as long as one failure won't take them all out.

So, the question is: is there any way to get Mythtv to spread recordings across multiple drives instead of dumping everything into /myth/tv?

I'm actually not counting my fourth drive which is where I intend to keep DVD ISOs from my DVDs which I could re-rip in the event of failure.

I believe having multiplue storage locations is being worked on in the trunk development branch of MythTV. I think it will be rolled out when MythTV version 0.21 is released. You can always try to compile MythTV from the trunk yourself. There is a thread around here with a pretty good script that does the heavy lifting for you. Try searching on "mythsvn" if you want to take that plunge and always backup first!

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Mike
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