It is recommended to store media on a drive other than your system drive, ideally a direct attached storage (DAS) device or a storage area network (SAN). You can store media on the system drive but performance will not be as good, and is not a recommended setup.
Note: The recommended filesystem on Mac OS X is HFS+, but you can use another filesystem. In addition to implementing POSIX file system semantics, such filesystem must support both hard and symbolic links, 64 bit file sizes and offsets, direct I/O, and timetamps with at least 1 second precision. Finally, directories must support at least 4 billion entries.
Configuring the Media Cache storage:
- Ensure the disk array or SAN storage used for the Media Cache is connected to your workstation and powered up.
- Boot your workstation and log in.
- Open the Service Monitor,
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- In the Service Monitor, open the Components tab and Stop Stone+Wire. Wait for the Status light to turn red.
Note: Some other components' status light might change to red: this is normal behavior.
- Launch the Setup application.
- In the Media Storage tab, click Add and follow the instructions.
If you need to create mount points for your media cache storage, a procedure below shows you how to do this.
- Once the storage appears in the Media Storage list, click Apply.
The setup application restarts some services.
- Close the Setup application.
- Back in the Service Monitor, open the Components tab and Start Stone+Wire. Wait for the Status light to turn green.
Note: Other components' status light should change back to green. If not, Start them.
- Verify that the new media cache storage is available. In the terminal, type:
/usr/discreet/sw/sw_df
Any project created in your application after this point can now use new media cache storage. Any pre-existing projects are unaffected by this setting and remain associated to their respective partitions.