Picture Server Storing Millions of jpg's!

[Shawn]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 15:04:20 -0800
"Lonni J Friedman" <netllama at gmail.com> 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.  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.
> 

You didn't miss it, I miss typed it all over the place. 

the gist is that the machine can't seem to handle the shear number of
files in any one directory, numbering in the hundreds of thousands and
beyond.  I am looking for a recommendation on file system and if there
are any file managers more adept at this sort of situation.  Also are
there any tweaks I might make to the system, OS software wise, that
could help.

OS  Slackware 11 with 2.6.17 kernel.

Shawn

Shawn