Picture Server Storing Millions of jpg's!

[David A. Bandel]

On Jan 2, 2008 5:02 PM, 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.

The camera/software can't tell the difference between light changes
and motion.  So as the sun goes down you get a series of shots, same
with sunrise and a sudden rainshower.  Also make sure you don't have
trees in the field of view, etc.  Best for this sort of thing is a
very light controlled room (florescent lights and heavy curtains on
the windows w/ no shadow around the curtains).  Otherwise you need
software you can "train".

>
> 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?

Helpful to do what, exactly?

David A. Bandel
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