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becomes soft-imported and unmanaged media. If the publish destination resides on the same volume as the
Managed Media Cache, and the format of the published files is the same as the one defined by the media
preferences for the volume, only hard links to the managed media are created. This media becomes accessible
to other applications and unmanaged by the Visual Effects and Finishing application.
Configuring your Application to Use the Media Storage Filesystem
To set up a standard filesystem as media storage:
1 Make sure the disk array or SAN storage is connected to your workstation and powered up, and that a
UNIX-compatible filesystem exists on the storage. See Creating the XFS Filesystem on the LVM device
on page 40for details on formatting your storage array to the recommended XFS filesystem.
2 Stop Stone and Wire with the command:
/etc/init.d/stone+wire stop
Messages appear in the terminal indicating that Stone and Wire is stopped.
3 Perform the following steps to create the Managed Media Cache directory:
■ If a mount point for your storage does not exist, create a directory that will serve as the mount point.
For example:
mkdir -p /mnt/StorageMedia
or
mkdir -p /mnt/SAN1
NOTE If you are configuring a direct-attached storage array, the DKU installer should have already created
a mount point for it under /mnt/StorageMedia (for HP Z800 workstations) or /mnt/stoneMedia (for older
workstations).
■ Mount the filesystem to the newly created directory. For example:
mount -av -t xfs -o rw,noatime,inode64 /dev/vg00/lvol1 /mnt/StorageMedia
Type man mount in a terminal for more information on mounting filesystems.
NOTE To set the filesystem to automatically mount at boot, create an entry for it in the /etc/fstab file.
Type man fstab in a terminal for details.
■ On the mounted filesystem create a directory named after the workstation hostname. For example,
if the filesystem mount point is /mnt/StorageMedia and your workstation hostname is smoke1 type:
mkdir -p /mnt/StorageMedia/smoke1
■ Create a Managed Media Cache directory in the directory created in the previous step. The Managed
Media Cache directory should be named after the partition name (by default partition 7, or p7).
For example, if the filesystem mount point is /mnt/StorageMedia, your workstation hostname is
smoke1, and the partition name is p7, type:
mkdir -p /mnt/StorageMedia/smoke1/p7
■ Set the ownership for the directory created in the previous step to the root user. For example:
chown -R root:users /mnt/StorageMedia/smoke1/p7
■ Set permissions for the directory to be readable, writable, and searchable by the owner and its group,
and readable and searchable by all. For example:
chmod -R 775 /mnt/StorageMedia/smoke1/p7
4 Optional: If you want to use several media storage volumes (for example, additional direct-attached
storage arrays, or SAN volumes), repeat step 3 to create separate mount points and Managed Media
Cache directories for each additional volume. The DKU only creates the mount point and /etc/fstab
entry for the initial volume (/dev/vg00/lvol1).
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