Hi, we plan to set up a big file storage for media files like uncompressed movies from student film projects, dvd images etc. It should be some sort of archive and will not bee accessed by more than may be 5 people at the same time. The iSCSI RAID we have is about 26TB netto and I'm again faced with the question: How many partitions, which filesystem, which mount options etc. For the User it would be the most simpel thing, to have one big filesystem she/he could fill with all the data and dont has to search e.g. on multiple volumes. On the other hand, if one big filesystem crashes or has do be checked it will destroy a lot of data or the check will take hours ... Any suggestions pro or cons are welcome! :-) My favourite for now is 3 to 4 filesystems with the default ext4 settings. (Redhat EL 5.7, may be soon 6.1) Thanks and best regards. Götz -- Götz Reinicke IT-Koordinator Tel. +49 7141 969 420 Fax +49 7141 969 55 420 E-Mail goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH Akademiehof 10 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de Eintragung Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 205016 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Jürgen Walter MdL Staatssekretär im Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg Geschäftsführer: Prof. Thomas Schadt