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Final Cut Server and Qmaster Cluster Storage

After a week off from work, I found Final Cut Server and the Xserve where it’s setup very slow. I realized that it was because the system hard drive was full. I used an excellent tool called WhatSize to find out what was the problem. It was because of the size of the folder /var/spool/qmaster. I’ve never realized before that qmaster was copying all the files there in order to start the encoding requested by Final Cut Server.

So I changed the settings in Qmaster preferences to a temp folder created on the same Volume where we store the source files. Not only I did empty a lot of space on the System Hard Drive but now the encoding starts within a shorter time because it copies the files on a much faster Volume (Xraid).