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Did you just decide to not read the part where he said "Not that you would"? He was making a point, not actually suggesting that they use Dropbox before it was

• Arelius 14y ago
  "Not that you would" Implies that you could. I was pointing out that they could not, for two rather poignant reasons. I didn't mean to do it offensively, but the point is that syncing and managing the huge amount of data that they have would be difficult and impractical over the internet even today, and this was also 13 years ago. Especially then, maintaining a single "master" copy on a single linux machine was in fact a pretty decent solution to the problem.
• kenrikm 14y ago
  ^ This. However wow it's been that long? My point was a single linux box seems "Low tech" considering you need a render farm just to produce the movie. Also they were clearly referring to assets and not the rendered film (Hats, sets etc.. getting deleted) which is 1000x worse.
  • Arelius 14y ago
    The infrastructure to maintain authority on terabytes of data on late 90's hardware in a distributed fashion would be a pretty significant amount of development effort. It'd be much easier to just get a giant RAID NAS, and manage it all there, which should in theory be quite sufficient assuming you are keeping proper backups. Many of the render nodes will have copies of the needed data, but the authoritative copy needs to live somewhere.