Apple Xsan 1.2 updates

Apple today released will remove Xsan from your computer, including the Xsan Admin application and documentation files.

Xsan Filesystem 1.2 for Tiger includes fixes for:

• improving AFP performance when resharing Xsan volumes
  
• more accurate file permissions when sharing Xsan volumes via AFP
  
• accessing Xsan volumes larger than 16 terabyte in size
  
• greater server stability when resharing Xsan volumes via NFS
  
• handling quotas with no associated user or group name
  
• maintaining access to Xsan volumes when metadata controller failovers 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
  

The Panther version of the update includes fixes for:

• greater server stability when resharing Xsan volumes via NFS
  
• handling quotas with no associated user or group name
  
• maintaining access to Xsan volumes when metadata controller failovers occur
  
• operating Xsan in environments with a mix of 10.3.9 and 10.4 systems
  

by MacNN Staff