Picture Server Storing Millions of jpg's!

[Bob Hemus]

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 15:04 -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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. 

	<snip> 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.>  The problem?  Too many pix?
and/or how to limit shots to some definite motion or sort 'em using some
parameters?  I gots no ideas.

Bob
> > 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.
>