NFS capture with FCP 6

Hi,

Currently we are using two intel Mac Pros, one G5 and one G4. All are connected using gigabit ethernet.

The gigabit switch is Linksys 24 port model with web control.

The video server is Gentoo Linux with NFS Version 3.

So far all is working great. We are using NFS version 3 over UDP.

The video captured are DVC Pro 50 and normal DV. We did some simple test with DVC Pro HD and it seems to work and need to do more testing with DVC Pro HD.

We are capturing and editing directly into/from the linux server using NFS over UDP.

Here comes the real question.

We noticed that on OS X 10.4 and FCP 6, the video files on the server are broken into 2Gb files.

On OS X 10.3 and FCP 4.5, the video files are larger than 2Gb. There seems to be no limit. On both the tests, the server is the same linux server running NFS version 3.

We than took a 5Gb video file and dragged it to the nfs server . The file stayed as one file of 5Gb. This test was done on Mac OS X version 10.3 and 10.4.

Wanted to know if anyone eles is encountering the same behaviour?

It seems that FCP 6 is causing this. I do not think the os is the issue. FCP 4.5 does not break the file into smaller files.

In both the FCP preference the file size limit is not ticked.

What do you all think? Any suggestions?

P.V.Anthony