User Guide

96 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/<vol>.cfg
where <vol> 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/<vol>.cfg Volume settings
/Library/Filesystems/Xsan/config/fsmlist Volume auto-start list
/Library/Filesystems/Xsan/config/fsnameservers Controller list
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