On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 11:20 -0400, Brian Henning wrote: > I have to recommend against FAT for video files. Sure, FAT-32 claims to > be able to address something like 2TB of storage, but I think you're > taking chances by routinely storing upwards-of-two-GB files on any FAT > partition. For the record, FAT-32's maximum single-file size is (2^32) > - 1 bytes, or a byte less than 4GB (see > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463/EN-US/ ).
I agree wholeheartedly. I made this mistake once, using a fat32 drive for video editing. While recording from my mini-DV camera to the computer, I went over the maximum file size several times. It took me days to figure out why the video software was just giving up! You *definitely* need to use a more modern filesystem, like NTFS or ext3. For the record, NTFS support on linux is very good and stable right now. Read is perfect, and Write is decent. Last I checked, the NTFS module built in the kernel could write, but not make new files or new directories. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
