About this guide, Notation conventions, Preface – Apple Xsan (upgrading to Xsan 1.4) User Manual
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About This Guide
This guide shows how to upgrade to Xsan 1.4 without
interrupting volume availability.
Follow the instructions in this guide to upgrade your Xsan SAN to Xsan 1.4 on Mac OS X
or Mac OS X Server version 10.4.
For general information about upgrading, read Chapter 1.
For instructions that show how to upgrade from Xsan 1.1, 1.2, or 1.3 to Xsan 1.4 on
Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server version 10.4, read Chapter 2.
For instructions that show how to first upgrade from Xsan 1.0 to the prerequisite
Xsan 1.1 on Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server version 10.4, read the appendix.
Notation Conventions
The following conventions are used in this book wherever shell commands or other
command-line items are described.
Notation
Indicates
fixed-width font
A command or other terminal text
$
A shell prompt
[text_in_brackets]
An optional parameter
(one|other)
Alternative parameters (type one or the other)
underlined
A parameter you must replace with a value
[...]
A parameter that may be repeated
A displayed value that depends on your SAN configuration