A Good Filesystem for Storing Large Binaries?

jZnat asks: "I own hundreds of gigabytes of binary data, usually backed up from other mediums such as CDs and DVDs. However, I cannot figure out which filesystem would be best for storing all this reliably. What I'm looking for is a WORM-optimized FS that also has good journaling methods to prevent data loss due to some natural disaster while data is being shifted around. Trying something new for once, I tried using SGI's XFS due to its promising details, but I was met with countless IO errors after trying to write large amounts of data to it. I feel that Ext3 is not optimal for this; ReiserFS is too slow when it comes to reading large data files; and Reiser4 isn't mature enough to entrust my digital assets to. What filesystem would be most appropriate for these needs?"

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It worked for me

[toadlife]

Around 1997, I discovered the magic of mpeg-layer3. I hung out in #mpeg3 on effnet and was part of what was probably the first ever mp3 trading circle. An aquaintance of mine had a CD of the rare Nirvana/Jesus Lizard single, which had Nirvana's "Oh The Guilt" on it. I borrowed it from him and ripped it to wave and encoded it a 256KB mp3 and returned the CD. Over the next year or so, quite a few people nabbed the song from me during normal trading sessions in #mpeg3. Sometime later I made a boo-boo and lost a folder permanently, and one of the files in it was that song. I was bummed, as the person I borrowed the CD from was gone and the CD was long out of print and cost a lot of money if you happened to find a copy. I forgot about it.

Quite a few years later - I think ~2002, I was on some p2p app, typed in "Oh the Guilt" and got a hit. I downloaded it, and it was a 256KB mp3 of the song. The file modification date in 1997, and the tags were typed in exactly the I would have put them if I had encoded the song. I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure I got my file back.