Xsan Filesystem 1.3 for Mac OS X 10.4

About Xsan Filesystem 1.3 for Mac OS X 10.4

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What’s New in this Version The Xsan 1.3 update delivers overall improved reliability for Xsan and is recommended for all systems running 10.4.

It includes fixes for:
- labeling and initializing LUNs greater than 2TB in size
- preventing labeled LUNs from becoming unlabeled
- improving AFP performance when re-sharing Xsan volumes
- more accurate file permissions when sharing Xsan volumes via AFP
- accessing Xsan volumes larger than 16 terabytes in size
- greater server stability when re-sharing Xsan volumes via NFS
- handling quotas with no associated user or group name
- maintaining access to Xsan volumes when metadata controller fail-overs occur
- providing metadata controller services to 10.3.9 and 10.4 systems running Xsan 1.2
- operating Xsan in environments with a mix of 10.3.9 and 10.4 systems

Important Notes:
If any system in your SAN is running Xsan 1.3 on Mac OS X v10.4, then your metadata controllers must also run the same. You can’t use a metadata controller running on Mac OS X v10.3 if any client is running Xsan 1.3 on Mac OS X v10.4.

Volumes containing initialized LUNs greater than 2TB can only be used with Xsan 1.3 systems running Mac OS X v10.4.5 or later. Xsan does not support LUNs larger than 2TB on Mac OS X v10.3.9 or systems running StorNext version 2.6.

For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303105