FCS 3 safe on XSAN?
by Dan Rubottom
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Sep 3, 2009 at 4:00:34 pm
Anyone having any adverse effects when running FCS3 on XSAN2 in Leopard? How about Snow Leopard? do we dare?
Would like to upgrade to FCS3, would also like to upgrade to SL at the same time, but do you think it would be better to stick with Leopard for now and just install FCS3 until a dot release for SL?
Thanks!
bonus question: Any reason we shouldn't use Spotlight to index the XSAN volumes? (since its a touted feature on XSAN2)
Re: FCS 3 safe on XSAN? by Dave Klee on Sep 3, 2009 at 6:11:51 pm
Hey Dan, we haven't gone to Studio 3 yet because of the PPC issue, so I can't say. I hear it's fine for a place with all Intel machines. My personal philosophy is to separate major upgrades like that so you can tell if one or the other caused an issue, but to each his own.
Personally, I've had mixed luck with Spotlight -- even on our meager Xsan of 30TB, using Xsan 2.1. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it includes all results, sometimes it doesn't. Some clients can use it and some can't. It takes a really long time to do the initial index, and you want to make sure your MDCs have lots of RAM to keep up.
I've followed it, but still had very mixed luck. I'd love to hear if anyone has it working and is happy with it. If you give it a try, let me know how it goes!
