Best FS for 500X5GB hardware RAID5?

I would like to hear your thoughts on this. I have a 500x5GB RAID5 array currently formatted with NTFS (from Windows), and I'm currently moving all of the data over to another RAID0 partition in order to allow me to delete the partition and reformat it in a different file system. The reason for this is that NTFS doesn't allow me to prevent accidental file deletion using an immutable flag using chattr:
sudo chattr -R +i /media/Perc\ RAID5/Music
Here is some info on it:
Storing documents, music, movies, and television shows. Most of the storage it will be larger mkv files (so >5GB).
It will be for archiving only, where the data is mirrored on my RAID0 /home partition, which is where I point Amarok and browse to read documents, etc.
I will occasionally watch Movies and TV shows from it, but other than that it's strictly for archiving. That being said I need
I would like to choose a FS that I can still read from Windows 7 in order to play video files from Windows 7 x64. So far I'm reading up between ext4, XFS, JFS, and Reiser. I don't really need write support in Windows 7.
I know none of these FSes are natively support in Windows (which is a joke, but I digress....), however I've used programs that implement ext in the past. I tried to get ext2fs to work with my /home ext4 partition, but it couldn't read it. It was able to detect it and assign a drive letter, but it said it needed to be formatted before.
If anyone has any tips/thoughts on any of this I would appreciate it. Right now I'm backing everything up and reading on the different file systems, then afterward I'll go ahead and format. I may also recreate the array if anyone has suggestions for a different stripe size to go with the FS....currently I have 64 kB stripe size IIRC.
Thanks!

I'm glad you've got things working out for you!
I've heard JFS is very stable and good for dealing with LOTS of file entries. I use XFS. Good with big files. Both JFS and XFS have the down-side of potential file corruption with power loss as they only journal metadata. There are good wikipedia articles on JFS and XFS, as well as the Arch wiki articles here. XFS has a community website: Xfs.org There is a lot you can do to improve XFS performance when creating the XFS partiton.
You should also keep your eyes on ZFS and BTRFS. ZFS is currently being ported to linux. BTRFS is kinda like the linux version of ZFS, but is still in alpha-- I think. Both are filesystems of the future!
CoLinux is very cool, btw. I'll think of it the next time I try to get a friend to use Linux
Last edited by eliphant0723 (2010-10-20 08:58:33)

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Finally, I am looking to create DVDs for a lot of video. I am wondering if there are any USB or firewire hardware devices out there that could speed up the compression. I use the Elgato Turbo.264 when I want to encode to H.264 but I wonder if there is something similar for DVD creation.
Thanks in advance.

the standards for videoDVD are 720x480, and usually mpeg2 encoded..
so, your HiDef project HAS to be 'downsampled' somehow..
I would Export with Qucktime/apple intermediate => which is the 'format' your project is allready, and you avoid any useless 'inbetween encoding'..
iDVD will 'swallow' this huge export file - don't mind: iDVD cares for length, not size.
iDVD will then convert into DVD-standards..
you can 'raise' quality, by using projects <60min - this sets iDVD automatically to highest technical possible bitrate
hint: judge pic quality on a DVDplayer + TV.. not on your computer (DVDs are meant for TVdelivery)

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For example, does the card function best at 00% (0db) output, or 50% (-5db) output?
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I?m recording some very machine intensi've video & sound to outboard devices. I'm using these outboard devices so that the recording process itself does not impact the demonstration performance.
Concerning the sound out, I?m using the line & 2 out of the card, and running it through a pro level audio board (Mackie) for any adjustments & monitoring before taking the line out of the board into the recording device. When returning the sound for monitoring, I?m also running from the external device directly to the board and directly from there to either headphones or control room monitors. Thus, I?m using the Audigy for initial sound generation. So far, I've not really made any ajustments at the board other than level or balance. I like to keep things pretty flat in recording.
I?ve looked around for recommendations as to the best settings for the Audigy card from its internal software for this situation, but find no ready reference. My concern is that I have the ?hottest? signal from this device, while being very concerned with audio quality. I?m looking for both ?punch? and ?clarity? of signal.
Is there a document or source that would give me this direction? While I can move from this SB card to other more studio based cards, I?d like to keep the demo product in line with what the actual target audience would have in their machines, and be able to replicate at their workstation.
For example, does the card function best at 00% (0db) output, or 50% (-5db) output?
Or some setting in between...most likely...
Or, is there some other setting I?m not aware of?
I have what I believe are the latest card drivers and software suite, XP Pro, with every possible OS and other machine hardware update available.
Thanks,
Rich

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