On 23/12/2021 21:50, Mark Knecht wrote:
In the case of astrophotography I will have multiple copies of the
original photos. The process of stacking the individual photos can
create gigabytes of intermediate files but as long as the originals
are safe then it's just a matter of starting over. In my astrophotography
setup I create about 50Mbyte per minute and take pictures for hours
so a set of photos coming in at 1-2GB and up to maybe 10GB isn't
uncommon. I might create 30-50GB of intermediate files which
eventually get deleted but they can reside on the server while I'm
working. None of that has to be terribly fast.
:-)
Seeing as I run lvm, that sounds a perfect use case. Create an LV, dump
the files on it, when you're done unmount and delete the LV.
I'm thinking of pulling the same stunt with wherever gentoo dumps its
build files etc. Let it build up til I think I need a clearout, then
create a new lv and scrap the old one.
Cheers,
Wol
