Picture Server Storing Millions of jpg's!

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 1/2/08, Shawn <boffin at xmtservices.net> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have a system of IP camera's that are supposed to FTP snapshots upon
> motion sensing at a number of remote sites.  The cameras seem to send
> far more pictures even when things are static and I've ended up with
> litterally millions of 10-20K jpg's, not all of which I need to save as
> it were.
>
> I am having a great deal of difficulty managing theses pictures.  The
> machines can  seem to handle the shear numbers.  The hardware is an
> olde Quad XENON 500 with 4G's of RAM and a 300G 6 drive RAID 5 array.
> EXT3 and XFS didn't seem to help.  Any suggestions for FS or
> application(s) that may be helpful in this sort of situation?

Unless i've missed something, you never stated what the actual problem is.

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