Computers not seeing seeing files on Raid!!

Hey Guys
Real Basic setup with a RAID one xserve and a group of G5's The hardware is setup.. with the Fabric and all the Computers see the RAID.. it was formated RAID5. The isssue is when we upload files to the Raid we can just see the File from that system none of the others. It's like it's not updating! Was there something we missed maybe in the Admin software or Disk Uty? I know when you use the SAN software you need a Metadata Contrl.. is that the case here as well.
Regards
Ace

XSAN is a per node software product.
Is there any easy way to do SAN without doing SAN?
The short answer is no.
The longer answer is maybe, it depends on what exactly are you trying to do. If you want everyone to write willy nilly to a huge shared volume and anyone can access it and do whatever they want over fibre then no, that is what SAN does.
You can use AFP and share a volume this way through the XServe but only over ethernet not fibre. (This is good enough for most everything up to audio/video editing or similar needs where latency needs to be very low.)
You can slice or partition the RAID into pieces and let everyone have their part - that's pretty easy and there are a number of ways to do it. Slicing with LUN masking, partitioning with fstab editing, etc. You can even have shared Read Only volumes with this will meet your needs.
Hope that helps,
=Tod

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