[game_preservation] Long-Term Storage

[Andrew Armstrong]

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