update on Shared storage, workgroup capability?

[Keith Koby]

No. We’ve never seen that problem but we are on an xsan volume. I’m not very familiar with facilis, so I don’t think I’d be much help to you.

[Oliver Peters]

[Aaron Vogel] “I was interested to read your post as we’re having a small issue with a process very similar to yours. We’re working with a Facilis SAN setup and 2 workstations.”

See my post earlier in this thread. I am working with a Command Soft FibreJet SAN. This is volume-based. AFAIK, the Facilis units can be either volume or file-based, depending on which version you have. In our can, the “add SAN location” never worked and we have found that writing the Events and Projects to the SAN volume caused lots of short “beach balls”. Our media is on the SAN, but Events/Projects are linked and written to the local workstation drives. I am willing to bet that NTFS is also a problem. You should contact Facilis and have them look into this.

Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Aaron Vogel] “Format is NTFS, but we can create shortcut files through Finder just fine, so that lead me to believe it wasn’t a volume format issue.”

Check with Facilis.

We have NTFS storage as well and the alias files weren’t getting created either. We could also create an alias with Finder.

Whatever FCPX is doing, it is a different call than what happens with Finder, and Facilis has to allow whatever that is.

[Aaron Vogel]

Thanks guys,
I’ll check with Facilis for a solution.

[John Heagy]

FCPX with shared storage works well. What exactly one wants to share is where it gets tricky.

Can you describe what you want to share? Projects, footage, logging…

I could hook up 40 systems and have them all editing with FCPX off the same shared storage. The broad strokes are easy, the devil is in the details. Unfortunately Apple has chosen to take control of the details in FCPX unlike FCP7.