I can't speak from personal experience with Softimage running from a network, but one thing to keep in mind is that Linux (specifically NFS) does a much better job than Windows (specifically CIFS/SMB) of caching files and not always pounding the network over and over again for the same stuff.
I like the rsync idea a lot. Anytime files are being read multiple times, and rarely written is a good place to deploy that sort of strategy. On Centos 6, there's a thing called FS-Cache that does persistent caching of network files. At the last place I worked, we talked about it briefly, in the context of application deployment, but it was still too early for Centos 6. And now I'm back on Windows :( - Andy On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Alan Fregtman <alan.fregt...@gmail.com>wrote: > At work when we start up XSI we rsync from the network copy so it's local > but updates can be deployed easily should we make a change. (Linux, too.) > > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Raffaele Fragapane < > raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> It can be done easily enough, and we do it for test versions before they >> are rolled out to local deployment, and I did it at home for a hwile, >> mostly for shits and giggles. >> >> These days it's not bad at all, but of course the loading times will go >> up a chunk depending on network related factors, but not by absurd amounts >> unless you run a sloth of a network. >> >> This is on linux, no idea on windows. >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Jens Lindgren < >> jens.lindgren....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hehe yeah I know it could be slow, but I just want to test it. >>> We're running Nuke from the network and it loads really fast. >>> >>> /Jens >>> >>> >
