On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Monty Shinn montys@videopost.com wrote:
We basically store video image sequences (edited and source) and audio/video files on our servers. We are an editing and broadcast design facility, doing mostly HD work. The files are relatively large, and there are a lot of them.
Having worked for a large film and television post-production facility in London for just over six years, XFS has been the primary filesystem for all our servers. Much of the data was split across multiple disk servers - each with around 2-3Tb of data. The whole filesystem was presented to the workstations over NFS with scripts to manage links to the different file servers - presenting a unified filesystem to the artist. XFS had given us the performance and reliability required and has gotten us out of some nasty scrapes.
It's a shame that RHEL/CentOS does not include XFS as a choice of filesystem out of the box without having to compile the XFS module or use CentOS Extras repository, but perhaps one day it may happen.. ;)
M.