NFS sharing fcpx projects

[Steve Chandler]

Hey all – how is NFS performance these days? From very limited experience and some research, I’ve been under the impression that NFS performance was pretty crappy on OS X by default. Obviously the vendors are doing proprietary stuff to speed this up. Does anyone know what sort of techniques can be used to get better speeds natively on OS X?

I’d like to experiment with that on our shared storage system, but mostly as a fun curiosity – don’t want to go down that road if it’s not worth it.

[John Davidson]

I gave up on that a long time ago and we use SMB only now. NFS has the fun feature (or at least it did) of locking up after effects renders that go to the server.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[Simon Blackledge]

Same – SMB only – AFP stutters when using thunderbolt kit.

want to share fcp-x projects ?

set to leave files in place (on server)
set Cache to a shared out cache folder on server.

Set location of library (which should be small now) to be dropbox and share that folder between edit suites.

Also point backups to dedicated backup folder also shared on dropbox

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[Lucas Werneck]

Whats the problem of using NFS for FCPX?
I’ve been using and it’s ok. Some problems appeared on Yosemite has some problems with NFS but it appears to be ok on El Capitan.
The SMB2 on El Capitan also appears to be even better then everything else but FCPX still needs SAN or NFS for libraries. Which in my opinion is VERY strange.
Regards,

[Bob Zelin]

strange Lucas ? It’s very simple – Apple does not want you to purchase a shared storage system – they want you to use iCloud (which of course is ridiculous). Apple had File Sharing working wonderfully with FCP7 with both SMB and AFP, and now they intentionally don’t want it to work – it’s that simple. They can’t disable NFS, because its native to the Darwin Kernal, so wonderful people like Bresink make simple utilities to enable NFS for us for this application. For those that say “oh, Apple will fix that soon” – they are never going to fix it. They WANT it to be this way. It would require nothing for them to allow library sharing over SMB3 or AFP.

Apple promotes products that work with Apple products, and not companies that compete against them.

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com

[John Davidson]

If that’s the case, then there’s probably a way to hack the application to enable SMB Library Mounting. Sparse DMG’s were one solution at the time (and technically still are) but I found better performance from the library being local, FWIW.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.