Spotlight on Xsan gone beserk

Anyone ever seen spotlight indexing errors on Xsan 2? Xsan Admin was hanging badly when trying to index the Xsan volume. It's just a theory at this points, but spotlight seems to hate files from Unix or Windows, especially files which are unique on those filesystems but not on Mac OS X.
Some of the errors which makes me think it's spotlight related:
MDSChannelPeerRequest: (ipc/mig) server raised exception com.apple.metadata.mds[62]
XSANFSFSCTLSpotlightRPC fsctl failed (errno = 45)ERROR: _MDSChannelInitForXsan: _XsanCreateMDSChannel failed: 45
com.apple.metadata.mds[62]
ERROR: _MDSChannelXsanFetchAccessTokenForUID: dead channel
mds[62]
(Error) Message: MDSChannel RPC failure (fetchPropertiesForContext:) [no channelAccessToken]

Same here. Turned of Spotlight indexing on the three filesystems, but errors still comming identical to yours
Probably not related, but who knows, also have loads of Console Log Entries (in the All Messages bit of console) that state...
xsand Automount: volume options are not a dictionary
This I think comes from the automount.plist file that has a field marked...
<key>MountOptions</key>
and I suspect the MountOptions bit needs to be swapped for something else, but I have no idea what.

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