On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Monty Shinn <montys at 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. -- Martyn Drake http://www.drake.org.uk http://www.mindthegapps.com