Your filesystem suggestions - video/dvd archive for video editing

[Andrew Bacchi]

I forgot to paste the link, sorry.

http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse91/suselinux-adminguide/html/apas04.html

Andrew Bacchi wrote:
> Here's a link to a site that has FileSystem sizes.  It appears that ext3 
> has a limit of 8TB at 2kB block size, and 16TB at 4kB block size.  So 
> you may want to check that out.
> 
> I see no problem though in making two 5TB partitions, each one being an 
> ext3 filesystem.  That is very simple to manage and your fsck times will 
> be lower.
> 
> Götz Reinicke wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm planing a storage (iscsi, 16 SATA disks, raid 6) for some film/dvd
>> projects, to archive the clips and final dvd images. The "backup" is the
>> original video tapes and dvd.
>>
>> The server is a RH EL 5.2 system, all devices on gigabit lan.
>>
>> We calculated about 10 TB for the first setup.
>>
>> For the "novice" users the storage serves the shares via smb; for the
>> "pro" useres I'd like to use ftp.
>>
>> My questions concerns the size and the type of the filesystem:
>>
>> The most simple setup would be ext3, one big filesystem.
>>
>> The pro is the simple setup and logic management; the contra is e.g. a
>> long filesystemcheck after a crash.
>>
>> There would not be mutch concurrent connections or users.
>>
>> Any thoughts and/or suggestions?
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Götz Reinicke
> 

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Andrew Bacchi
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