Tony,
You are not the only one that suggested this and Philippe at customer
support is working on such utility. I can't give an ETA yet but it
should not be too long.
Jean-Marc Porchet
Avid DS project lead
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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of tony(at)hdheaven.co.uk
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:41 AM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: re: [acsr] Re: Lanshare and the Mac File count limit
fwiw I've been suggesting a utility for clearing up not only empty but
also orphaned storage GUID folders since v2....
Another one for the wish list I guess.
Regards,
Tone :)
>
> okay ken, stuart, sylvain: i have one for you.
>
> 2 DS Nitrii and 2 RPees on a dedicated unity. 7.5 QFE4.
>
> each cpu and MII array has it's own port on the vixel.
>
> one allocation group, one workspace per MII array (7 arrays)
>
> videostorages and audiostorages on each workspace.
>
> MANY projects online and archived.
>
> DS handles media differently than MC. on unity, MC stores media in a
> subfolder of the main OMFI MediFiles folder on each workspace. DS
> stores its media in a folder named with the PROJECT's GUID (one of
> those long system numbers like what gets tacked onto a OMFI mediafile
> name). one folder for audio, one for video. with the same names!
> (be very carefull copying media in a DS environment). the video file
> folders go in a main folder usually called videostorage and the audio
> files folders into an audiostorage folder.
>
> (7 arrays * 1 workspace per array * 1 videostorage folder * # of
> projects ever opened on the system) + (7 arrays * 1 workspace per
> array * 1 audiostorage folder * # of projects ever opened on the
> system) = a very large number after a year or so.
>
> unity has limits. 10,000 folders, 500,000 files. exceeed them with
> caution.
>
> the client setup: 2 DSes, 2 RPs. LOTS and LOTS of projects go
through
> this system monthly. check setup manager on the unity: 36,000
> folders!!!!!!! only about 300,000 files. most of the folders were
empty.
> turns out DS doesn't clean up after itself. delete a project and
> it's media, the project's media folders are left behind, empty.
> cluttering up the unity.
>
> my suggested QFE is a small program that deletes empty GUID folders.
>
> i pointed this out to DS ACSR support a couple of times but never
> heard back.
>
> thought i'd throw it out here and the DS-L and see what happens.
>
> stuart, sylvain???
>
> -chris kippes
> A C S R
> Dess, Unetee, Windoes, Mak
> keycodemedia
>
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>> Dave is also correct. The problem is not LanShare versus local
>> storage, but rather the OS in general. It has to do with Disk
>> Caching that has to happen to track files.
> The thing to remember, though, is that the file limit for LanShare
> gets extended by multi-client setups. Since you have individual
> client folders within the OMFI MediaFiles folder on LanShare, each of
> those can have the file limit (I usually say 1200 for OS 9 and 2000
> for OS X, but the OS X figure is a conservative estimate). So, an
> OMFI MediaFiles folder could have 4000 media files in it for a 2
> client setup, 6000 in a 3 client setup, etc., etc. That may be why
you haven't noticed issues before.
> -Ken
>
>
> From: Dave French [mailto:dave(at)simvideo.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 3:18 PM
> To: acsr
> Subject: [acsr] Re: Lanshare and the Mac File count limit
> Unfortunately, your client is right. LANshare's are not immune to the
> file count limit. I've hit it on both OS9 and OSX systems using
LANshare's.
> I've heard many variations on what the limit is but from my experience
> I wouldn't go much above 1200 - 1300 files on an OS9 system. For OSX
> keep it under 3000, usually around 2700 seems ok.
> hope that helps.
> Dave
> On Jun 13, 2005, at 3:00 PM, Ed Segeren wrote:
> We're moving a LanShare-based project from Toronto (PC Avids) to LA
> (OS9 Avids).
> Client has been told that it's best to re-distribute the media files
> onto multiple workspaces in order to avoid the Mac demons that surface
> once the file count closes in on 2000 per folder.
> "OK," I say, "that's the way it should be for local storage on a Mac.
> But for a LanShare scenario, it's not a concern."
> But he's got me thinking about it. Even worse, he's got me thinking
> that he's right.
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