XSAN Drive Quites on all Edit Machines

i had a problem yesterday the xsan system was completely down and the drive disconnects on all the edit systems with an error
Jan 22 13:54:38 San fsm[513]: Xsan FSS 'Media[0]': PANIC: /Library/Filesystems/Xsan/bin/fsm ASSERT failed "freeip->i_idinode.idiflags & InodeFlagFree" file inode.c, line 2280 Jan 22 13:54:38 San fsm[513]: PANIC: /Library/Filesystems/Xsan/bin/fsm ASSERT failed "freeip->i_idinode.idiflags & InodeFlagFree" file inode.c, line 2280 Jan 22 13:55:57 San fsm[528]: Xsan FSS 'Media[0]': PANIC: aborting threads now. Jan 22 13:55:57 San fsmpm[329]: PortMapper: FSS 'Media' disconnected. Jan 22 13:55:57 San fsmpm[329]: PortMapper: Rescanning for available CVFS volumes. Jan 22 13:55:57 San fsmpm[329]: PortMapper: QUEUEING RESTART of FSS service 'Media[0]' on host 192.168.1.201. Jan 22 13:56:23 San servermgrd: xsan: [44/302DD0] ERROR: getfsm_processstats(Media): Unable to find pid of fsm
i tried upgrading the xserve system to 10.4.4 the system worked for a while then it started again after 15 min with the same error msg...
the problem was fixed after i used cvfsck everything came back online.
does any one knows whats going on and why did that happened?

Hi Jesse,
I don't quite get this -- you're going to use Xsan and then share out the volume using AFP, and then edit the clips from within FCP on that?
I don't like it. Performance won't be good.
Especially with Xsan 1.2 -- 1.3 is a lot better with AFP resharing, but still, the point of Xsan with FCP is so you can edit "online," and online means over fibre.
I also don't like FCP 4.5 -- I'd suggest getting up to 5.1, if you're going to use it with Xsan.
Finally, I wouldn't suggest you run the AFP service on the MDC machine. Your setup isn't one I would consider optimal. I might not even call it adequate. I may be missing the big picture, but I'd say you're cutting enough corners to be heading for "whitewater."

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    [email protected]

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