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The configuration files, The volume configuration file – Apple Xsan 1.0 User Manual

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Appendix B

Using the Command Line

The Configuration Files

Xsan stores its configuration information in the following files:

The Volume Configuration File

The parameters that describe an Xsan volume are stored in the file

/Library/Filesystems/Xsan/config/.cfg

where

is the name of the volume.

The various parameters in the file and how they are used to define a volume are
described in the

cvfs_config

man page.

Example Configuration File

# Stornext File System Configuration File Example

#

# Names can be of [A-Z][a-Z][0-9] hyphen (-) and a under-bar (_)

#

# Other things, like user defined strings and pathnames must be enclosed

# by double quotes (").

#

# Comment character (#) can start anywhere and persists to the end of line.

#

#***************************************************************************

# A global section for defining file system-wide parameters.

#***************************************************************************

#

# Global Super User.

#

# If this variable is set to Yes, then any super-user on any client may

# have global access priveleges. If set to No, then the super-user user-id

# can only affect files owned by the super-user.

#

GlobalSuperUser No

#

# The minimum number in file system blocks a file should expand by.

#

InodeExpandMin 8

# 32k initial allocation

#

# The increments an expanding segment should grow by in file system blocks.

#

InodeExpandInc 32

# Increment aggressively (128k)

File

Contents

/Library/Filesystems/Xsan/config/.cfg

Volume settings

/Library/Filesystems/Xsan/config/fsmlist

Volume auto-start list

/Library/Filesystems/Xsan/config/fsnameservers

Controller list

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