[game_preservation] Long-Term Storage

[Jim Leonard]

I work with these technologies as part of my Day Job(tm) so I can offer 
some insight, but it is that same Day Job(tm) that has preventing me 
from commenting thus far.  I'll try to do so tonight.

Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> Neat thoughts. I suspect however you're wrong in saying NTFS would be 

> the way an archive would go - as it'd be primarily server-based hard 

> drive arrays, no doubt they'd choose whatever was best for the OS 

> running the servers. Interfacing with that would be via. shares, so no 

> need for native writing in any case. (also; OSX cannot write to NTFS at 

> all).

> 

> Some file systems with proper symbolic links might be necessary for 

> advanced archiving or checking software, I'm not sure.

> 

> RAID would be the most important thing I bet, certainly a hot swappable 

> and automatically rebuildable array. As long as the hardware is there to 

> deal with telling people something is wrong, then it should be a good 

> system as long as it's redundant with a second server, in a entirely 

> different location you'd hope :-D

> 

> Andrew

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