Apple Xsan Documentation

Apple Guides

man1/cvadmin.1.html – Xsan administration (start/stop/show volumes, view storage pools and edit quotas)
man1/cvaffinity.1.html – List and set affinities
man1/cvcp.1.html – Xsan optimized copy
man1/cvdb.1.html – Xsan debugger
man1/cvdbset.1.html – Xsan debugger control
man1/cvfs.1.html – init.d script
man1/cvfs_failover.1.html – Xsan failover
man1/cvfsck.1.html – Check consistency and repair Xsan volumes
man1/cvfsid.1.html – displays SNFS identifiers (Storenext)
man1/cvgather.1.html – collects debug information
man1/cvlabel.1.html – configures Xsan file system disks
man1/cvmkdir.1.html – creates a directory or change its affinity
man1/cvmkfile.1.html – preallocates a file
man1/cvmkfs.1.html – filesystem initialization
man1/cvsginfo.1.html – displays informations about storage pools
man1/cvupdatefs.1.html – commits a configuration change to the system (run cvfsck before)
man1/cvversions.1.html – displays FSM revision, build level and creation date
man1/mount_acfs.1.html – mount helper
man1/sndiskmove.1.html – migrates the contents of a disk to a new disk
man1/snfsdefrag.1.html – defragments and reallocate data to affinities
man1/snmetadump.1.html – dumps the volume’s metadata

man4/cvfail.4.html – config run after failover
man4/cvfs_config.4.html – physical and logical layout of an individual volume
man4/cvpaths.4.html – specifies specific paths for LUN scanning
man4/fsmlist.4.html – contains the name of the volume to start
man4/fsnameservers.4.html – manages FS name coordinator(s)
man4/fsports.4.html – provides a way to constrain the TCPand UDP ports used by the Xsan server processes
man4/fsroutes.4.html – deprecated

man8/cvfsd.8.html – internal kernel thread used for communication with FSM
man8/cvfsdb.8.html – unknown
man8/fsm.8.html – manages the volume’s name space, allocations, and metadata coherency
man8/fsmpm.8.html – FSM portmapper (Apple internal use only !)
man8/xsanctl.8.html – provides a basic control facility for the Xsan file system

What’s inside /config
[volume].cfg	M	Volume settings
volume-auxdata.plist	M	Additional volume settings
fsmlist	M	Volume autostart list
fsnameservers	M+C	Controller list
automount.plist	M+C	Volumes to mount and their mount options
config.plist	M+C	Private Xsan Admin configuration information
notification.plist	M+C	Notification settings (emails)
notes/	M+C	Xsan Admin entered notes
uuid	M+C	Unique computer identification information
licence.dat	M+C	licensing information for StorNext clients
.auth_secret	M+C	shared secret file for use with StorNext clients

M = Metadata Controller ; C = Client