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Xsan filesystem and Admin updated to 1.4

by Scott McNulty Aug 17th 2006 at 6:45PM

I think someone at Apple declared today 'Update Day.' First it was the MacBooks, then Logic, and now Xsan is getting some updating love. The Xsan Filesystem was updated to 1.4 which includes fixes for:
  • using file system access control lists (ACLs)
  • labeling and initializing LUNs greater than 2TB in size
  • AFP and NFS performance when re-sharing Xsan volumes
  • handling file system quotas and notifications
  • compatibility with Apple and third party applications
The Xsan Admin tool as also been updated to 1.4 with fixes including:
  • labeling and initializing Fibre Channel LUNs larger than 2TB in size
  • expanding storage pools and volumes
  • working with multiple Xsan metadata controllers in a heterogeneous environment
  • displaying progress messages while performing lengthy operations
  • preventing custom configuration changes from being overwritten during a save
  • accurately reporting Fibre Channel multipathing errors
The Xsan uninstaller was also updated, just in case you are sick and tired of Xsan and want to be done with it.

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Allan White

Chris & others:

I'm building an Xserve/XRAID/fibre channel video server for our department (I'm a video editor). I was looking at MetaSAN*, but since there's no word from them on UB status, I'm back looking at XSan. It would seem that I can get by with just two servers (one main, one metadata fallback) - true?

Anyone know of any solid user groups/forums out there for XSan? Thanks for any tips!

* http://www.tiger-technology.com/products/metasan/index_eng.html

August 18 2006 at 1:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

True

I do XSan work, and i've run into a few angry xsan purchasers who didn't know how complicated it was when they bought the software (to make their FW drives faster...)

I just noticed that they did post a KBase article about the update, but you could download the 1.4 software last week.

Pardon the snappy comment.

August 17 2006 at 10:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Scott McNulty

Chris, that part was a little joke. :) And as for it being announced last week, I didn't hear about it (which doesn't mean I'm not slow, just that most of the Mac web is slow).

Better late than never, huh?

August 17 2006 at 8:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

Also to add, the 1.4 update was last week at WWDC, the big feature is Universal Binary.

.. Kinda slow on the uptake? (may not have propagated to software update servers, but if you know anything about xsan, you wouldn't be updating that way).

August 17 2006 at 8:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

Actually, the xsan uninstaller is used more for troubleshooting deployment than anything else.

I don't know of many people who just "get sick and tired" of what amounts to atleast $20+ grand in cost.

I am excited about ACLs and improved NFS resharing speeds.

August 17 2006 at 8:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Fedora

nice Mac news

August 17 2006 at 6:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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