XSAN missing folder

xavi00 · fully protected Joined: 17 Jul 2008 Posts: 10

So sometime this morning my XSAN decided it didn't want to show one of the 3 main folders i have.

I say show because if you know the path to a folder inside this "hidden" folder you can see the data.

I worked around it by creating another folder and moving all the data to that folder.

I stopped the volume and ran cvfsck with several different tags and nothing worked. The volume showed clean and everyone is able to mount and use the new folder.

Has anyone seen this before and have any suggestions?

I'm running XSAN 2.1.1 on server 10.5.8 all power pc's with promise raids.

abstractrude · Xsan Master Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 860

do you have any deny ACL's

xavi00 · fully protected Joined: 17 Jul 2008 Posts: 10

nope everyone has read/write access.

lotte · Xsan Master Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 190

Had exact the same with one folder a couple of weeks ago, setup is basicly the same but using StorNext on Linux as mdc which could see the path, but all ppc clients did not....

Lotte

ribofunk · JBOD Joined: 15 Nov 2010 Posts: 1

Hello. I've had this happen several times now, the folder just disappears but is just hidden. Had to copy the data out into a new directory. How does this happen? Is it an extended attributes issue? This is when I noticed this first. So recently destroyed the rebuilt the volume without extended attributes.

The permissions for the directory before and after hiding read as: drwxrwxrwx@ with the @ the end. If this is an indication of extended attributes in the permissions, and the volume no longer has extended attributes since it was done up new, the restored data might till have this tag? Could this be causing the problem?

thanks!

dibyendu · JBOD Joined: 05 Mar 2009 Posts: 4

we have experienced a same where the volume itself got hidden and at the same time it was showing 'mounted' on the managed controller and it came back automatically after 4 hours.

we mailed the same to apple but unfortunately they were also clueless about the issue…..

just after 15 days they came out with the new update 10.6.5 server update which says it came out with all the solutions for volume availability but the discussions of apple contradicts that.....

we are still waiting for a firm reply from apple on this if the XSAN developers guys can answer the same why the darling (Volume) got hidden....

pablogott · Could work for Apple Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 48

I'm having the same problem.

I upgraded both of our MDCs to Lion server, and a few of our clients to Lion.

We're missing a folder at the root of the volume. It's a big folder, probably contains a few terabytes. No other folder contains more than 500GB.

Snow Leopard clients can see the folders fine.

The volumes are mounted on the controllers.

I can see the folder name when doing LS in terminal from a Lion client, but I can't change to the folder ("No such file or directory).

The folder doesn't show up in Xsan admin file management.

Could this be related to the size of the folder?

Any troubleshooting ideas?

halimedia · Been around the blocks Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 27

Hello all,

I just had the same problem, and there's a relatively easy fix:
1) Install the Xcode developer tools on one of your machines connected to the Xsan
2) Use the utility SetFile to change folder attributes as follows: