Mounting xserver raid

Folks,
We have a xserve raid box set up and connected via fibre channel to a xserve box. What steps we need to do to mount the drives? What's the osx equivalent to vfstab and what device names reference them?
Powermac G5    

That's exactly what you need to do. At this point they could be UFS, HFS or whatever you want. You need to partition and format them to your liking. Once they are formatted they will mount automatically on boot.
If you have more than one connected computer (or you use a fibre switch) you can use fstab to control mounting at boot time as per Unix regular usage. I have never been able to get an authoritative answer on whether Disk Utility honors fstab. I have a feeling it doesn't - or can be forced to override those settings - but I have tried it to see. Next time I take the servers down for back-up or maintenance I'll try it and see. I have 500GB of my 6 disk RAID5 carved out for my webserver - the rest of the side and the other side are for the fileserver - and I control their mounting with fstab settings. But I've never tried to forcibly mount the webserver volume on the fileserver.
Don't worry - the formatting is faster than than the initialization.
Good luck,
=Tod
G5/2.0x2, Dual XServes x2, XRAID, beige G3 501Mhz    

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    Tod Kuykendall
    Posts: 1,237
    From: San Diego
    Registered: Oct 11, 2000
    Re: Xserve Raid Mounts, Corrupt Directory tired of rebuilding directory
    Posted: Jun 27, 2010 1:25 PM in response to: Todd Buhmiller
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    +The xserve raids will mount automatically to any computer that I connect the qlogic fc switch to+
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    If they are using XSAN then I'm afraid you're out of luck as we there is no Windows client for XSAN. If they are using a different SAN product then perhaps you'll have more luck with finding a windows client.
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