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Thanks to both of your advice. |
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Yes it is true that I want to mount the remote server as local to mount/edit the |
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videos store on it. |
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From your reply, I understand that NFS is the fastest. Any advice on the |
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resource fork files that are with Mac files? Will the resource files get |
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transfered across? Does NFS see the resource files? |
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Please do continue to advice. |
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Again thank you for these advice. |
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P.V.Anthony |
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Jordi Molina wrote: |
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> Hi list, |
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> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that he wants to mount the remote |
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> server as local to mount/edit the videos stored on it. |
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> In that case, even using the fastest protocol (IMO, choosing btween |
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> AT, SMB or NFS, it's NFS) the delay on performance will be |
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> "noticeable", just say it on this way, it won't be the same than doing |
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> a RAID0 on the macs and editing the files from there. |
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> But, if you mean that you'll use the amd64 as a fileserver, or just to |
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> store the originals and the produced masters, i recommend you using |
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> NFS. |
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> Hope it helps a little bit :) |
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> Jordi |
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> On 9/19/05, me <kmcdona1@××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>Well, from experience working w/ Mac's for the last 10 years, Appletalk sucks. |
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>>You won't really get performance out of it, though it's handy, effective, and |
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>>simple. |
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>>You could mount via FTP, the finder has a built in client program of sorts, |
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>>and you can make aliases that way as well. FTP blast's on the LAN, can't |
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>>imagine what kinda speeds you'll get on a crossover cable. |
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>>No clue on the gentoo side of things, sorry. |
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>>Here trying to learn a lot more about it myself! LOL! |
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>>- Kevin |
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>>On Sunday 18 September 2005 02:11 pm, P.V.Anthony wrote: |
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>>>Hi, |
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>>>I am new to this list. I have been using gentoo for about three months as a |
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>>>desktop machine and it is just great. |
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>>>Now I want to build a video server for two mac workstations doing video |
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>>>editing. |
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>>>Please help me in giving some advice. |
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>>>The server is going to only do this job as a video server. The idea is to |
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>>>remote mount on the mac using netatalk or nfs. |
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>>>I am using amd Athlon64 3000 on a MSI Neo 4 Platinum with 2Gb of ram. There |
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>>>is a Promise Raid card, EX8350, with 8 sata drives as Raid 5. The file |
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>>>system is going to be XFS. |
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>>>The two macs are connected to this server using gigabit ethernet, cross |
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>>>cable. |
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>>>Which is faster nfs or netatalk? |
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>>>Any advice on how to setup the USE flags and the compile settings? |
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>>>The reason on going with AMD64 is so that I can use the 64bit. Hoping that |
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>>>it would be faster with the hyper-transport. Any advice or gotcha that I |
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>>>should look out for. |
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>>>Please do comment. |
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>>>P.V.Anthony |
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