No refresh files on finder at xsan volume

I'm working with a xsan 3.0 on a osx 10.8.2 server, all the clients are fiber channel xsan clients. When we create a folder or copy a file on the xsan volume using one client, is not updated on the rest of clients after a few minutes when viewed in finder. Any idea why?
Thank you!

"Me too", and it's been happening for us in metaSAN, not even XSAN. Now I know it's not metaSAN's fault...
As Cooney said, it used to be a non-issue in prior versions and now requires a manual patch. Please send a bug report: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Or if you have developer access:
https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa/wa/signIn
Here is the report I sent:
Observed behavior:
When a user creates new files in a SAN folder, another user will not see those new files. Waiting (over 15 minutes), closing and reopening the folder, or reopening a Finder window makes no difference.
Expected behavior:
Finder should automatically pick up on the changes to the folder and display them, as has been the behavior prior to 10.8.
Recurrence: Sporadic.
Workarounds:
Users have to issue a Finder refresh command via AppleScript. Alternatively, if user #2 creates a new subfolder it will also "kick" the folder and update its view with the missing files.
We observed this issue with metaSAN 5.5.0.42 as well as XSAN3. 10.8.4 clients with 10.8.4 server.

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Open and work on FCP project file located at xsan volume

It is recommended by apple to *open and work on FCP project file located at xsan volume*
or we should open , work and save our FCP project file from local drive only .
Is there is risk of corrupting xsan volume if we open FCP project file placed in xsan volume .
where should be the location of FCP project files ??????
Mac pro 2.66 , FCP 6.01, xsan 1.4

Opening a file twice is a indeed a problem. To prevent this, and for numerous other reasons, we use Open Directory. In OD you can configure that a user can login just once (concurrently).
In old versions of xsan it was not recommended to put project files on xsan, but nowadays it works fine.
Putting projectfiles on a san has the advantage that a user can work on any client. If this is not important in your environment these files can be stored locally.

Poor performance with small files on Xsan volume

Since I'm running on Xsan for with network users and server shares, I have various problems.
Users complaining on slow logins, Word files that have saving errors. For the Word problem, there are a lot tricks like .TemporaryItems with acl.
But I think there's another reason. My mobile home users are not yet using the new home server with mobile homes. Today I migrated my own account to the new server en syncing is very slow on files from my iCal server and mail archive.
So I did a test on the servers that are connected to the san. The backup servers has the san volume mounted and some old Xraids for backup storage. If I duplicate my iCal folder (8000 files) it takes 8 minutes in the Xsan volume. On an Xraid, less than 30 seconds. If I duplicate 1 2.5GB diskimage file on the san volume, it does it in less than 10 seconds.
My Xsan setup:
All Intel Xserves
1 MD server dedicated (4GB Atto FC)
1 OD server and server shares (and backup MD controller) (4GB Atto FC)
1 home folder server (4GB Atto FC)
1 backup server (also MD backup controller) (4GB Apple FC card)
2 Promise Vtraks with 16X 750 GB disks
1 MD lun (2disks mirrored) (Own FC controller)
2 Data luns (8.87 TB each lun) (Each own FC controller)
Xsan setup is done with configuration for home directories.
Block allocation size: 8kb Round Robin
Separate ethernet metadata network.
I hope someone can give me some pointers.
Patrick

I have the same issue and it is killing our iCal Server performance.
My question would be, can you edit an XSAN Volume without destroying the data?
There is one setting that I think might ease the pressure... in the Cache Settings (Volumes -> <Right-Click Volume> -> Edit Volume Settings)
Would increasing the amount of Cache help? Would it destroy the data?!?!?

Troubleshooting Xsan Volume Panic

I've been having a semi-regular Xsan panic and haven't been able to isolate the cause. I'm hoping someone here has seen something similar and can offer some tips on solving this.
Here's what the cvlog says when the panic happens (it's the same every time):
0209 07:47:13 0x10da87000 (*FATAL*) PANIC: /Library/Filesystems/Xsan/bin/fsm ASSERT failed "IPXATTRINODE(ip)" file fsm_xattr.c, line 736
0209 07:47:13.258787 0x11de39000 (Debug) timedfree_pending_inodethread: flushing journal.
0209 07:47:13.258805 0x11de39000 (Debug) timedfree_pending_inodethread: journal flush complete.
0209 07:47:13 0x10da87000 (*FATAL*) PANIC: aborting threads now.
The primary MDC panics, and fails over to the backup. The backup panics immediately, and fails back to the primary, which panics again and stops the SAN.
Here are the setup details:
• 4 Early 2008 Xserves (2 controllers, 2 clients), Xsan 2.2.1
• All 4 servers running 10.6.5 (same panic also occurred under 10.6.4)
• Clients share open directory home folders over AFP for users with portable home directories.
• 2 Vtrak E610F enclosures, one hosts a data LUN, the other a metadata LUN for one Xsan volume
• QLogic Sanbox 5602 fiber switch
I can't find any hardware problems on the Vtraks or the Sanbox
After the san panics, I run cvfsck -j followed by cvfsck -wv. The output doesn't show any problems, to my (admittedly untrained) eye. Here's what I get from cvfsck -wv, let me know if I'm missing something:
BUILD INFO:
#!@$ Server Revision 3.5.0 Build 7443 Branch branches_35X (412.3)
#!@$ Built for Darwin 10.0 i386
#!@$ Created on Mon Dec 7 12:52:39 PST 2009
Created directory /tmp/cvfsck15061a for temporary files.
Attempting to acquire arbitration block... successful.
Creating MetadataAndJournal allocation check file.
Creating Homes allocation check file.
Recovering Journal Log.
Super Block information.
FS Created On : Wed Dec 22 07:22:21 2010
Inode Version : '2.5'
File System Status : Clean
Allocated Inodes : 1305600
Free Inodes : 26073
FL Blocks : 85
Next Inode Chunk : 0x32c55
Metadump Seqno : 0
Restore Journal Seqno : 0
Windows Security Indx Inode : 0x5
Windows Security Data Inode : 0x6
Quota Database Inode : 0x7
ID Database Inode : 0xb
Client Write Opens Inode : 0x8
Stripe Group MetadataAndJournal ( 0) 0x746a080 blocks.
Stripe Group Homes ( 1) 0xe8bd3c0 blocks.
Building Inode Index Database 1305600 (100%).
Verifying NT Security Descriptors
Found 697 NT Security Descriptors: all are good
Verifying Free List Extents.
Scanning inodes 1305600 (100%).
Sorting extent list for MetadataAndJournal pass 1/1
Updating bitmap for MetadataAndJournal extents 102400 ( 8%). Updating bitmap for MetadataAndJournal extents 112640 ( 8%). Updating bitmap for MetadataAndJournal extents 113322 ( 9%).
Sorting extent list for Homes pass 1/1
Updating bitmap for Homes extents 1257585 (100%).
Checking for dead inodes 1305600 (100%).
Checking directories 109996 (100%).
Scanning for orphaned inodes 1305600 (100%).
Verifying link & subdir counts 1305600 (100%).
Checking free list. 1305600 (100%).
Checking pending free list.
Checking Arbitration Control Block.
Checking MetadataAndJournal allocation bit maps (100%).
Checking Homes allocation bit maps (100%).
File system 'ODHome'. Blocks-244044736 free-215328011 Inodes-1305600 free-26073.
File System Check completed successfully.
However, if I try to restart the volume after running cvfsck, it just panics again. Shutting down the clients and rebooting the primary controller allows a normal startup, and the volume mounts and runs fine until the next panic. Everything in the cvlog between panics is labeled either debug or info.
I've reversed the roles for the primary and backup controllers, but it didn't make a difference in the panic.
Most, but not all, of the panics seem to happen in the morning when users are logging in, or at quitting time, when the users' portable homes are syncing. I've tried to isolate the panic to a specific user's sync, by temporarily disabling syncing for usergroups (one at a time), but can't tie them to any single user. Nightly incremental backups and weekly full backups run without causing a panic. I can also use rsync to mirror the volume's contents to another server without causing a panic.
I'd appreciate any insight into the cause of the panic, or strategies to diagnose or prevent it.
Thanks!

Hi There ClintR,
I'm having an identical issue that occurred out of nowhere @ 3pm yesterday.
Have been working on finding a solution to this, however haven't found anything effective yet.
Did you have some luck in finding a resolution?
Here is a excerpt of my logs - if anyone can offer some further assistance I'd be very grateful.
[0222 07:52:01] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Info) Branding Arbitration Block (attempt 1) votes 2.
[0222 07:52:03.363744] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Debug) Cannot find fail over script [/Library/Filesystems/Xsan/bin/cvfail.xsan02.lifestyletrader.com.au] - looking for generic script.
[0222 07:52:03] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Info) Launching fail over script ["/Library/Filesystems/Xsan/bin/cvfail" xsan02.lifestyletrader.com.au 59564 Homes]
[0222 07:52:03.404814] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Debug) Starting journal log recovery.
[0222 07:52:03.667002] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Debug) Completed journal log recovery.
[0222 07:52:03.667148] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Debug) Inodeinit_postactivation: FsStatus 0x2525, Brl_ResyncState 1
[0222 07:52:03] 0x11ef11000 (Info) FSM Alloc: Loading Stripe Group "MetadataAndJournal". 931.31 GB.
[0222 07:52:03] 0x11f395000 (Info) FSM Alloc: Loading Stripe Group "Homes". 3.64 TB.
[0222 07:52:03] 0x11ef11000 (Info) FSM Alloc: Stripe Group "MetadataAndJournal" active.
[0222 07:52:04] 0x11f395000 (Info) FSM Alloc: free blocks 423988623 with 0 blocks currently reserved for client delayed buffers.Reserved blocks may change with client activity.
[0222 07:52:04] 0x11f395000 (Info) FSM Alloc: Stripe Group "Homes" active.
[0222 07:52:04] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Warning) Windows Security has been turned off in config file but clients have been requested to enforce ACLs. Windows Security remains in effect.
[0222 07:52:04.135555] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Debug) FSUUID_init: found `FSUUID' xattr on root inode: fecc6178-3f8b-4e10-98bc-52a932539a15
[0222 07:52:04] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Info) RPL_init: RPL upgrade required.
[0222 07:52:04] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Info) RPL_Upgrade: Removing existing RPL attributes.
[0222 07:52:07] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Info) RPL_Upgrade: removal completed 20 IEL blocks
[0222 07:52:15] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Info) RPL_Upgrade: removal completed 40 IEL blocks
[0222 07:52:28] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Info) RPL_Upgrade: removal completed 60 IEL blocks
[0222 07:52:45] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Info) RPL_Upgrade: removal completed 80 IEL blocks
[0222 07:53:08] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Info) RPL_Upgrade: removal completed 100 IEL blocks
[0222 07:53:36] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Info) RPL_Upgrade: removal completed 120 IEL blocks
[0222 07:54:10] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Info) RPL_Upgrade: removal completed 140 IEL blocks
[0222 07:54:53] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Info) RPL_Upgrade: removal completed 160 IEL blocks
[0222 07:55:50] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Info) RPL_Upgrade: removal completed 180 IEL blocks
[0222 07:57:02] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Info) RPL_Upgrade: removal completed 200 IEL blocks
[0222 07:58:34] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Info) RPL_Upgrade: removal completed 220 IEL blocks
[0222 08:00:25] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Info) RPL_Upgrade: removal completed 240 IEL blocks
[0222 08:02:43] 0x7fff70355ca0 (Info) RPL_Upgrade: removal completed 260 IEL blocks
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[0222 14:02:47] 0x7fff70355ca0 (*FATAL*) PANIC: /Library/Filesystems/Xsan/bin/fsm ASSERT failed "IPXATTRINODE(ip)" file fsm_xattr.c, line 736
[0222 14:02:47] 0x7fff70355ca0 (*FATAL*) PANIC: wait 3 secs for journal to flush
[0222 14:02:50] 0x7fff70355ca0 (*FATAL*) PANIC: aborting threads now.
Logger_thread: sleeps/44494 signals/0 flushes/65 writes/65 switches 0
Logger_thread: logged/91 clean/91 toss/0 signalled/0 toss_message/0
Logger_thread: waited/0 awakened/0

Oddball client not mounting XSan Volumes

Background: My client, a TV News broadcast station, had Apple and a third-party design and install a Apple based XSan storage and network. They ran all new fiber and gigabit ethernet to each station to use the XSan. It has been working great, with the exception noted below.
Setup: 2 MD Controllers, 1 XServe, 4 XRaids, each make up two 2 large TB volumes (raid 5, stripped together).
XServe, XRAID, MD controllers, and all clients are all connected together on a Fibre and Fiber Optic network using QLogic switches. SUBNET: 10.200.1.x.
Ethernet Network, also connected all the above together on HP Gigabit Switches. SUBNET: 10.100.1.x The public WAN is made available on this subnet by a connection to the HP switches. Still getting details on how this was done.
Everything is running OS X 10.4.8 or better, XSan File System 1.4.
Setup
There are 8 workstations (edit bays) that act as infusion and editing stations. Each station has two XSans volumes mounted NEWS01 and NEWS02. They have the odd numbered bays use NEWS01 and the even numbered bays use NEW02.
PROBLEM
All bays mount the XSan volumes, except one. FCP08 will not mount the XSan volumes. We have rebooted the workstation, and even went to the extreme of shutting down the entire setup all bays and MD controllers, File Servers, etc.. then bringing everything backup up. Same problem.
Based on some forum discussion, we have tried the following:
* Ensured that there is no empty mount point in /Volumes
* Uninstalled all XSan Software and resinstalled v1.4 from Apple's website.
* Removed the client from the XSan Admin, and readded it, made sure to enter valid serial number, etc..
* Verified that all fibers are working, all link lights look good, and you can ping across the MD network.
When you use the XSan admin from either FCP08 (edit bay 08) or from the server, and you add both MD XSans to it, you see the client, and you click on the client and click either Mount (read-only) or Mount (Read/write).
It will show "Mounting..." and then it will flip back to "not mounted". The only feedback we have received so far is "ACCESS DENIED". All affinity setting are set to rwxrwxrwx (wide open), and all the volumes and workstation logins all have the same access to the volumes. I can not find any restrictive permissions anywhere.
I plan on trying to move them away from a /etc/hosts type setup to a proper DNS Server running on their XServe using the DNS Server function of OS X Server. But currently all edit bay stations have the same /etc/hosts file installed, which accounts for MD and ethernet networks.
ANY IDEAS what is wrong with this workstation? With the setup?
I have had extreme ideas from some who have said that we need to blitz the entire client, and reinstall the operating system. I am not willing to go down that route, since each edit bay was built manually without an image (another aspect I will remedying soon). It will take sometime to rebuild this edit bay client if I that is the only solution.
The only this question I have if that is the popular opinion, is what is different from a client OS install and the existing one regarding the XSan? This are edit bays, not private workstations, and no one installs any extra software or surfs the net, etc.. They are used for ingest and editing only.
HELP!
Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Hi,
You could check if it is Fibre Channel related:
from a terminal do a cvlabel -l
this should give you a list of the lun's in your volume.
When this tool does not show luns, you might have a zoning issue.
Regards
Donald

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I would say that read only access at the root level of your XSan volume would be preferable, at least it is in the environment that we are working. This prevents anyone but an administrator from placing folders at the root level, meaning that you can control affinity assignment, whereas any local user that would create a folder on the root level would have no affinity assignment. In our environment, where we're working with multiple shows at a time and 52 TB of total storage, affinity assignments become absolutely crucial for file management.

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I have a grey screen and grey rotating wheel startup probs. I have tried repairing with the disk utility, resetting PRAM, booting in safe mode (which gave a subset of the errors that 'disk repair' did- namely- 'invalid sibling link,invalid record count, invalid node structure, invalid key length) and finally trying to get to archive&install the o/s, but it cannot find the destination volume. Is an erase the only option? PS I have backed up most files individually, but my daughter did not back up any from her user account. Any help would be appreciated. J

Gray, Blue or White screen at boot, w/spinner/progress bar
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Accidentally saved a file in the hidden folder /Volume??

I accidentally saved an attached email file in the hidden folder /Volume. Since it's a hidden folder, it doesn't show in the finder. However, in Mac Mail, if I try to save an attachment, I see the Volume folder there along with the file I saved there...
How do I delete that file in this hidden folder??

After typing Volume or /Volume in the search box of the Go To Folder option, nothing comes up?
Strange, I can see it as an optional folder to save to in MacMail but Finder does not see it?

Why can't I drag my files in finder to an external hard drive?

I'm trying to drag my files from finder to an external hard drive--I just get the universal "do not" symbol. How do I do this?

1.youd need a program like PARAGON to write to a NTFS drive from your Mac.
2. IF you can offload that data onto your PC or other computer, THEN format same in Mac OSX extended journaled, you can just drag and drop files to it.
3. To show the HD on desktop go to Finder > preferences > General > check on "external disks" and "hard disks"
4. The "EASY" option really is to get another HD for use with your Mac, unless of course you need specific files off that drive ON your Mac.
$70 for a good cheap quality 1TB external USB HD.
5. FAT32 and (better option>) EXFAT can read/write to BOTH Mac and PC (however time machine will not use either)
6. See mac format below, HFS+ i.e. "mac osx extended journaled"
FORMAT TYPES
FAT32 (File Allocation Table)
Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
Maximum file size: 4GB.
Maximum volume size: 2TB
You can use this format if you share the drive between Mac OS X and Windows computers and have no files larger than 4GB.
NTFS (Windows NT File System)
Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X
To Read/Write/Format NTFS from Mac OS X, here are some alternatives:
For Mac OS X 10.4 or later (32 or 64-bit), install Paragon (approx $20) (Best Choice for Lion)
Native NTFS support can be enabled in Snow Leopard and Lion, but is not advisable, due to instability.
AirPort Extreme (802.11n) and Time Capsule do not support NTFS
Maximum file size: 16 TB
Maximum volume size: 256TB
You can use this format if you routinely share a drive with multiple Windows systems.
HFS+ ((((MAC FORMAT)))) (Hierarchical File System, a.k.a. Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Don't use case-sensitive)
Read/Write HFS+ from native Mac OS X
Required for Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! backups of Mac internal hard drive.
To Read HFS+ (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer
Maximum file size: 8EiB
Maximum volume size: 8EiB
You can use this format if you only use the drive with Mac OS X, or use it for backups of your Mac OS X internal drive, or if you only share it with one Windows PC (with MacDrive installed on the PC)
EXFAT (FAT64)
Supported in Mac OS X only in 10.6.5 or later.
Not all Windows versions support exFAT.
exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table)
AirPort Extreme (802.11n) and Time Capsule do not support exFAT
Maximum file size: 16 EiB
Maximum volume size: 64 ZiB
You can use this format if it is supported by all computers with which you intend to share the drive. See "disadvantages" for details.

Backup Controller cannot mount XSAN Volume

Hi Guys,
I've really have a big problem regarding the XSAN that I've just setup: There are 3 Xserves connected to the SAN - one for the main controller, one for backup and another one for fileserver. After a fresh install of the Leopard Server 10.5.6 on all servers and fresh install of Xsan 2.0 updated to 2.1.1, I tried creating an SAN from the main controller, I added first the main and backup controllers, authenticated them properly and was successful adding them to the SAN. After this, I created the volume and it mounted properly on the main controller. What I don't understand is that whenever I try to mount the volume to the backup controller, it is saying unable to mount and even I tried forcing it to mount in terminal using the command xsanctl mount VOLNAME, its giving me an error saying
"unable to mount volume, Cannot mount XSAN volume error code: 5"
What is that error message? When I tried typing cvadmin to the main controller, it only gave me this message:
Main Controller:
File System Services (* indicates service is in control of FS)
1>*XSAN[0] located on 10.0.0.101:49930 (pid 317)
Select FSM "XSAN"
When I type the same cvadmin to the backup controller, it gave me this message:
Backup Controller:
File System Service (* indicates service is in control of FS)
1> XSAN[1] located on 10.0.0.102:50384 (pid 331)
No FSSs are active
Select FSM "none"
What is happening? both servers are having a DNS name. Before I created the SAN, from the authenticate window, the server name is just the IP address of the Ethernet 0 (first ethernet port). Now whenever I fire up Xsan Admin, both controllers are now offline and if you authenticate them, the server name info suddenly changed from IP address to a DNS Name (e.g. from 194.170.34.12, changed to hct-mdc.ad.hct.ac.ae) which even if I type my admin username and password cannot authenticate saying "server not found in network"
I really don't know now what to do and they need to fix the issue asap.
I would really appreciate your help guys!
Thanks.
jantoniophi

Hi,
I am accessing this WS via ARD, so public LAN is definitely there. I have not connected the "Xsan" network (but it should be no problems communicating the Xsan traffic over this single LAN connection).
With the firewall, the situation is more strange. When I try to open the Firewall settings on Sharing, there is a dialog "Other firewall software is running on this computer." I googled this and it seems that this was a common problem on 10.3. They suggest to delete com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist file but it is not there on 10.4.
"sudo ipfw list" shows this:
00001 allow udp from any 626 to any dst-port 626
65535 allow ip from any to any
Any ideas on how to make Firewall behave as expected? I will try to reinstall if I don't receive a reply.
Thanks.

OES11 SP2 - Linux File System and NSS Pools & Volumes

Planning to install our first OES11 SP2 server into an existing tree - the
idea is to run this new OES11 server virtualized on VMware ESXi 5.5
The existing tree has two physical NW6.5SP8 servers running eDirectory
Version 8.7.3.10b (NDS Version 10554.64). One of the existing Netware
servers is used for DHCP/DNS, File Sharing from three NSS volumes and
Groupwise 7.0.4 whilst the second server is used for FTP services and
eDirectory redundancy. Ultimately the plan is to have two virtualized OES11
SP2 server with one for file sharing and the other for making the move from
GW7 to GW2012. And we're planning to stick with NSS for file sharing on the
new OES11 SP2 server.
I've come across a couple of posts for earlier versions of OES which
recommended not to put the Linux Native OS File System and NSS storage
pools/volumes on the same hard drive. Apparently the advice was a result of
needing to allow EVMS to manage the drive which could be problemmatic.
I've read the OES11 documentation which says that "The Enterprise Volume
Management System (EVMS) has been deprecated in SLES 11, and is also
deprecated in OES 11. Novell Linux Volume Manager (NLVM) replaces EVMS for
managing NetWare partitions under Novell Storage Services (NSS) pools."
So I'm wondering if there is still a compelling requirement to keep the
Linux Native File System and NSS pools/volumes on separate hard drives or
can they both now safely co-exist on the same drive without causing
headaches or gotchas for the future?
Neil

Hi Willem,
Many thanks for the further reply.
So we can just use the VMWare setup to "split" the one physical drive into
two virtual drives (one for the OS and the second for the pools).
And I've seen posts in other forums about the need for a decent battery
backed cache module for the P410i controller so I'll make sure we get one
(probably 512Mb module + battery).
Can I ask what is the advantage of configuring each VM's virtual disk to run
on it's own virtual SCSI adapter (by setting disk1 to scsi 0:0, disk2 to
scsi 1:0, and so on)?
Cheers,
Neil
>>> On 9/5/14 at 12:56, in message
<[email protected]>,
magic31<[email protected]> wrote:
> HI Niel,
>
> xyzl;2318555 Wrote: >
>> The new installation will run on a Proliant ML350 G6 with P410i>
> controller
>> so we can use the raid capability to create two different logical drives>
> as
>> suggested.
>
> As you will be using ESXi 5.5 as host OS, it's not needed to split
> thehost server storage into two logical drives... unless that's what
> youwant in perspective for "general performance" or redundancy reasons.
> Italso depends on the options that P410i controller has.
>
> On a side note, I'm not too familiar with the P410i controller... domake
> sure you have a decent battery backed cache module installed, asthat will
> greatly help with the disk performance bit.
> If the controller can handle it and the controller can handle it, go
> forraid 10 or raid 50. That might be too big a space penalty but will
> helpwith disk performance.
>
> Once you have your VMware server up and running, you can configure
> thetwo VM's with each two or more drives attached (on for the OS,
> thesecond or others for your pools).
> I usually create a virtual disk per pool+volume set (e.g. DATAPOOL
> &DATAVOLUME on one vm virtual disk, USERPOOL & USER volume on an other
> vmvirtual disk).
> With VMware you can than also configure each VM's virtual disk to run
> onit's own virtual SCSI adapter (bij setting disk1 to scsi 0:0, disk2
> toscsi 1:0, and so on).
>
>
> xyzl;2318555 Wrote: > Do you have any suggestions for the disk space that
> should be reserved> or
>> used for the Linux Native OS File System (/boot, /swap and LVM)?
>>
>
> Here's one thread that might be of interest (there are more
> throughoutthe SLES/OES
>
forums):https://forums.novell.com/showthread...rtitioning-%28
> moving-from-NW%29
>
> I still contently follow the method I choose for back in 2008, justwith
> a little bigger sizing which now is:
>
> On a virtual disk sized 39GB:
>
> primary partition 1: 500 MB /boot , fs type ext2
> primary partition 2: 12GB / (root), fs type ext3
> primary partition 3: 3 GB swap , type swap
>
> primary partition 4: LVM VG-SYSTEM (LVM partition type 8E), takes up
> therest of the disk **
> LVM volume (lv_var): 12 GB /var , fs type ext3
> LVM volume (lv_usr-install): 7GB /usr/install, fs type ext3
> * there's still a little space left in the LVM VG, in case var needs
> toquickly be enlarged
>
> One thing that's different in here vs what I used to do: I replaced
> the/tmp mountpoint with /usr/install
>
> In /usr/install, I place all relevant install files/IOS's
> andinstallation specifics (text files) for the server in question. Keeps
> itall in one neat place imo.
>
> Cheers,
> Willem-- Knowledge Partner (voluntary sysop)
> ---
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> please show your appreciation and click on the star below it.
>
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Can't mount 3rd party DAS storage and Xsan volume simutaneously

Xsan client(MacPro) equipped an Apple FC HBA card can't mount SGI TP9300 DAS storage and Xsan volume simutaneously when powering on or restarting.
Among 2 FC ports, one port is used for Xsan volume using Xserve RAID, and the other port is used for SGI TP9300 storage which is directly connected to that Mac.
When booting, Xsan volume is always mounted normally, but SGI TP9300 volume is not.
Sometimes TP9300 volume is mounted about 20~30 minutes later.(I attached system.log file)
The LUN of TP9300 is seen at Disk Utility, so it's not physical problem.
It seems that actual volume information is not correctly processed at booting time.
While, after booting the system with the FC cable for TP9300 disconnected and confirming that Xsan volume mounted normally, then connecting the FC cable for TP9300, the TP9300 volume is mounted immediately.
Mac OS X 10.4.8, Xsan 1.4 is being used.

Yes, I think you screwed your xsan volume. You can not remove luns from pools, and you can not remove volumes from volumes.
How important is your existing data? In your case I would concentrate on that. This is not trivial. Theorotically you have lost your data allready. In practise you might have luck.
Once I was in your kind of twilight zone, and managed to keep the data. It is a complete cli job. You have to be very carefull about with your config files. You could hire an experienced xsan consultant. If that is not possible, read the manpages very carefully before doing anything on the volume.
Regards
Donald

Adobe After Effect on Xsan Volume

Is there anybody using Adobe After Effect(AE) 6.5 on Xsan Volume in PowerMac G5?
In doing 2k or 4k DI work, AE browses many of sequence files (maybe up to 10,000 files in a folder)
File type is Cineon( *.cin), and file size is about 12MB for 2k, 48MB for 4k each.
The problem is that when the number of files is over than 5,000, movie preview gets very slow.
It takes 3~5 second to move from a point to another point.
This is happening only in PowerMac client, in Windows client (SNFS installed and using AE 6.5 same) it does not happen.
PowerMac 2.7G DP with 8GB RAM(10.4.2) is being used.
MDC is Xserve 2.3G DP with 1GB RAM), Xsan 1.1 is installed on all Mac machine.
2 Xserve RAID 5.6TB are being used for userdata.(4 RAID controller)
Metadata pool is belong to another Xserve RAID.
While, this symptom dows not appear in case Xserve RAID is directly attached to PM.
So, I thinks this is being from the difference between filesystems(HFS+ vs. Xsan filesystem) and
file index mechanism(Windows XP vs. Max OS X Tiger)
Is there any way to solve this problem?
Any ideas will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Steve

Steve,
I don't know if this is the same basic symptom or not, but FCP has an extremely difficult (can I emphasize extremely) time reconnecting to media on Xsan Volumes. It is so slow that you think it has crashed or something.
There is definitely an indexing issue on Xsan Volumes, that is not present in HFS+. If your issues is related to this at all, I am sorry to say, there is no fix for it yet, at least on the FCP side of things.
That's my two cents.
Good Luck
Kalagan

Cannot mount Xsan volume on Mac Pro

Hi,
I installed a new workstation - a first Mac Pro in our PPC Xsan deployment. I installed Xsan, then latest updates. However, I cannot mount an Xsan volume on this workstation. This is an abstract from the log:
May 16 19:06:14 Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Xsan Client Revision 2.7.201 Build 7.23 Built for Darwin 8.0 Created on Mon Nov 13 11:53:07 PST 2006
May 16 19:06:14 Mac-Pro sudo: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/Library/Filesystems/Xsan/debug ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/kextload -v -s /Library/Filesystems/Xsan/debug /System/Library/Extensions/acfsctl.kext
May 16 19:06:14 Mac-Pro /Library/Filesystems/Xsan/bin/fsmpm: NSS: No FS Name Servers file - NAME SERVICE DISABLED.
May 16 19:06:14 Mac-Pro fsmpm[246]: Portmapper: ComputerInfo: computer_name = "Mac Pro", hostname = "Mac-Pro"
May 16 19:06:14 Mac-Pro fsmpm[246]: PortMapper: CVFS Volume Meta on device: /dev/rdisk1 (blk 0xe000003 raw 0xe000003) con: 2 lun: 0 state: 0xf4 inquiry [APPLE Xserve RAID 1.50] controller # '5000393000018365' serial # '5000393000018365L0' Size: 490190848 Sector Size: 512
May 16 19:06:14 Mac-Pro fsmpm[246]: PortMapper: CVFS Volume RAID2_Left on device: /dev/rdisk2 (blk 0xe000004 raw 0xe000004) con: 2 lun: 0 state: 0xf4 inquiry [APPLE Xserve RAID 1.50] controller # '5000393000018A78' serial # '5000393000018A78L0' Size: 5860554719 Sector Size: 512
May 16 19:06:14 Mac-Pro fsmpm[246]: PortMapper: CVFS Volume RAID2_Right on device: /dev/rdisk3 (blk 0xe000005 raw 0xe000005) con: 2 lun: 0 state: 0xf4 inquiry [APPLE Xserve RAID 1.50] controller # '5000393000018805' serial # '5000393000018805L0' Size: 5860554719 Sector Size: 512
May 16 19:06:14 Mac-Pro fsmpm[246]: PortMapper: CVFS Volume RAID1_Right on device: /dev/rdisk4 (blk 0xe000006 raw 0xe000006) con: 2 lun: 0 state: 0xf4 inquiry [APPLE Xserve RAID 1.50] controller # '5000393000018319' serial # '5000393000018319L0' Size: 5860554719 Sector Size: 512
May 16 19:06:15 Mac-Pro servermgrd: xsan: [52] main: Waited 21 secs for fsmpm to start (now running)
May 16 19:06:15 Mac-Pro fsmpm[246]: PortMapper: Local FSD client is registered.
May 16 19:06:17 Mac-Pro servermgrd: xsan: [52] Done waiting for fsmpm to start
May 16 19:06:40 Mac-Pro servermgrd: xsan: [52/358E60] ERROR: mountvolumenamed(EditSAN): Cannot mount volume, file system does not know about it.
I tried reinstalling Xsan on this workstation, re-entering a licence key to the Xsan admin and rewriting Xsan settings, with no success.
All of the other 10 PowerMac workstations can access the Xsan volume with no problems.
Your help would be highly appreciated.

Hi,
I am accessing this WS via ARD, so public LAN is definitely there. I have not connected the "Xsan" network (but it should be no problems communicating the Xsan traffic over this single LAN connection).
With the firewall, the situation is more strange. When I try to open the Firewall settings on Sharing, there is a dialog "Other firewall software is running on this computer." I googled this and it seems that this was a common problem on 10.3. They suggest to delete com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist file but it is not there on 10.4.
"sudo ipfw list" shows this:
00001 allow udp from any 626 to any dst-port 626
65535 allow ip from any to any
Any ideas on how to make Firewall behave as expected? I will try to reinstall if I don't receive a reply.
Thanks.

I have an iMac(mid2010) running Pages v5.5.1 on OS X 10.10. Why can I not save or share documents. The error message is You can't save the file "TEST.pages" because the volume is read only.

I have an iMac(mid2010) running Pages v5.5.1 on OS X 10.10. Why can I not save or share documents. The error message is You can’t save the file “TEST.pages” because the volume is read only.
I get the same message when using Numbers so I presume it is a OS problem

Some of your user files (not system files) have incorrect permissions or are locked. This procedure will unlock those files and reset their ownership, permissions, and access controls to the default. If you've intentionally set special values for those attributes, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it, but you do need to follow the instructions below.
Back up all data before proceeding.
Step 1
If you have more than one user, and the one in question is not an administrator, then go to Step 2.
Enter the following command in the Terminal window in the same way as before (triple-click, copy, and paste):
sudo find ~ $TMPDIR.. -exec chflags -h nouchg,nouappnd,noschg,nosappnd {} + -exec chown -h $UID {} + -exec chmod +rw {} + -exec chmod -h -N {} + -type d -exec chmod -h +x {} + 2>&-
You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command may take several minutes to run, depending on how many files you have. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1, if you prefer not to take it, or if it doesn't solve the problem.
Start up in Recovery mode. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open. In that window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button
Select
 ▹ Restart
from the menu bar.

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