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Tuesday, November 15 2005 @ 04:49 PM EST

Xsan 1.2 Hits the Streets
Contributed by: brandon | Views:1373

Apple released Xsan 1.2 today, and a full description of the upgrade, available as four different software updates (!), is available in this support article. The downloads themselves are available either via Software Update or as standalone installers. Additional migration information is available in this support article, and additional information on working within the 2 TB LUN size limit is available in this support article. So much to digest -- don't forget to post your thoughts on the improvements, as well as your experiences with the upgrade, in our Xsanity forums.

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Xsan 1.2 Hits the Streets

Authored by: kevinhalpin on Wednesday, November 16 2005 @ 10:38 AM EST

Has anybody updated yet? I was thinking about going for it but don't _exactly_
want to go first.

Kevin
mac-fusion

Xsan 1.2 Hits the Streets - Authored by: deanmcg on Wednesday, November 16 2005 @ 02:44 PM EST

Xsan 1.2 Hits the Streets

Authored by: aaulich on Thursday, November 17 2005 @ 06:28 AM EST

Last night I upgraded an Xsan 1.1 broadcast environment to Xsan 1.2.
Everything went smoothly, and now the new system offers one great new
advantage: If you reshared an Xsan 1.1 volume using AFP, Mac OS X Server and
Xsan allowed you to set group permissions for single folders.
If you set read and write permissions for group “A”, users with a primary group
“A” were allowed to read and write within this folder. If a user had a primary
group “staff” and a secondary group “A” he was not allowed to access this
folder, as Xsan/Mac OS X Server just considered the primary group membership.
Xsan 1.2 and Mac OS X Server 10.4.3 consider all your group memberships,
which means, that now you can fine-grain your permissions settings like in a
pure AFP/POSIX environment.

Xsan 1.2 Hits the Streets

Authored by: Growl on Thursday, November 17 2005 @ 02:20 PM EST

Installed the thing (1.2 and RAID 1.5) and yes it has helped in one area -
permissions. I can also confirm that an rwxrwx--- actually works to clients
correctly (and various other permutations) OS 9 and OS X !!!

That was the good news. The bad news it it seams to have done nothing for
file searching! As before, in OS9 it takes about 15mins and is hit and miss as
to what it finds and as for OS X (10.3.9 & 10.4.3) - 0 hits with one exception
- if you are actually in the folder that the file resides in, it will bother to
acknowledge it's existance. Not really sure how that is an improvement
however as with 1.3m files plus, once you are in the folder that the file
resides, you kinda don't need the search thingy anyway now do you!
hummmm.......

For a data centre arrangement, if ACL's and Searching could just be resolved,
this would be (in my opinion of course) the best resillient, accessible and fast
mass data storage solution around for the money. Heck, double it and I don't
think you could do much better.

As far as I'm concerned, if we can at least solve the searching problem APPLE
(hope you are ears are burning or you guys are reading this) then I can get my
project rolled out on time at end of Feb. But, it is completely useless at
present.

ANYONE - please help with the searching!!!!!!!!

Oli

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