In a previous life, I designed and built many SANs based on Xsan (I believe I started with Xsan 1.3). I then migrated to looking after SANs based on SNFS, either from 3rd party vendors, or Quantum. I believe that the age of Fibre Channel is long over (although SNFS…
SNFS/Xsan: Changing a volume name
In the past it used to be a very straightforward process. You would rename the volume configuration file and run cvfsck. With newer versions if you try to do that you will get an error message. To make the name change you can use the cvupdatefs command. If you have…