SAN Fusion 1.5.2 - Easily connect Avid Media Composer to an Xsan volume.

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SAN Fusion is an easy and cost-effective solution that allows you to use Avid Media Composer with your existing Xsan infrastructure.

By using an existing Xsan volume as a backing-store for SAN Fusion's virtualized workspaces, editors can experience authentic Unity-style bin sharing and locking from within Media Composer 5.5.3 or later. Unlike other solutions that purport to make Avid work with Xsan, SAN Fusion is a client-side application with no additional server or minimum number of seats to buy.

SAN Fusion clients mount and unmount workspaces on demand through our intuitive GUI to provide Media Composer a real-time translation layer between it and Apple's Xsan filesystem. The end result is the best of both worlds: Avid's first class bin and media sharing combined with Apple's storage-agnostic low (or no) cost cluster filesystem.

Application UI

• Alerts and dialogs now use typographic quotation marks (i.e., "smart quotes") where applicable
• Help tags (commonly referred to as tooltips) are now displayed when the mouse pointer hovers over the toolbar items in the main window

File System

• Increased logging has been added to the fuse operation readdir introduced in version 2.3

File System Driver (3.0.9)

• The FUSE kernel extension used to treat all signals received while waiting for the user space file system daemon to respond to a file system request as fatal. On OS X there is no supported way to block signals in kernel mode or to determine which signal caused an interrupt. This is why there have been only two options:
  • Treat all signals a fatal and return immediately.
  • Ignore all signals, including fatal ones.
  Before version 3.0.9 all signals were treated as fatal. Between those two options this one is the 'safer' one, as we do not want file systems to hang the whole system. The problem is that it can become virtually impossible to complete any I/O operation under high signal pressure on a high latency (network) file system. This fixes issue #213: Interruptible system calls.
• Improve support for sigaction(2) flag SA_RESTART. This fixes issue #228: open(2) returns EINTR for files even when SA_RESTART is set.

Known Issues

• Issue: Some users have reported that files saved directly to the workspace's document bundle appear to be missing when using Finder or ls to list the file system's mount point. Workaround: In at least one case, after running xattr -c -rsv on the workspace's document bundle, missing files appeared almost immediately. In all cases, users who experienced files missing from directory listings indicated that reverting to SAN Fusion 1.0.6 corrected the issue.

• OS X 10.8.5 or later (including OS X 10.11)
• 8GB of RAM (16GB recommended)
• Xsan 3 or later, StorNext 4.2.1 or later, or NFSv3
• Media Composer 7.0.4 or later (including version 8.5)