Florin Andrei wrote: > Martyn Drake wrote: >> >> 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. > > Well, XFS was designed exactly for the kind of scenario you're > describing. No wonder it performs really well in that sort of situation. > Thanks to all for your help. I decided to go with XFS, since it could be loaded as a module and I have worked with it on SGI platforms for years. Thanks again. Monty