[TriLUG] file formats

[Brian Henning]

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/ ).

The OP said he guessed his files would be 1-2 GB in size..  But if we're 
talking about video editing here, depending on the project, it seems too 
likely that that'll prove a conservative estimate.

~B

Ian Kilgore wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 08:29:31AM -0400, Brian Henning wrote:
>> There are ext3 drivers for Windows, though I'm not sure if they're any 
>> better at writing than Linux's NTFS modules..
>>
>> ~B
> 
> They almost certainly are, given that ext3 is open.  If you plan to be
> blorping data back and forth between windows and linux, I don't
> reccomend NTFS.  You /can/ write to it, but sometimes (often, in my
> experience) it breaks, and why use it when you can use something that
> works?  (eg FAT).
> 

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