Xsan Commands

• cvadmin – Administer an Xsan File System (show volumes, stop volumes, start volumes, view storage pools, manage quotas
• cvaffinity – List or set affinities for storage pools
• cvcp – Xsan copy utility (use at your own risk)
• cvdb – Xsan debugger
• cvdbset – Used to control the Xsan debugger
• cvfail» - Fail volumes over between metadata controllers
• cvfsck – Check consistency and repair Xsan volumes
• cvfsdb – FileSystem debugging tool
• cvfsid – Display system identification information (useful when integrating StorNext clients)
• cvgather – Compile debugging information for Xsan
• cvlabel – Label LUNs for use with Xsan
• cvmkdir – Directory creation tool for Xsan
• cvmkfile – File creation tool for Xsan
• cvmkfs – File system (volume) creation tool for Xsan
• cvuntrespass – Recover files that trespass into restricted areas (like when you got caught jumpin’ the fence of that sorority house back in the day)
• cvupdatefs – Make a change to an existing volume
• cvversions – Obtain patch level and versioning information for the system, Xsan and when the patches were compiled.
• fsm – Volume controller process
• fsmpm – Volume manager that runs on each node
• mount_acfs – Xsan mounter
• sndiskmove – Migrate the contents of one LUN to another LUN
• sndpscfg – Disk proxy server config tool
• snfsdefrag – Defragment the volume
• snmetadump – Save and/or process metadata
• snmetatar – Backup metadata to tar
• xsanctl – Xsan control tool allows you to quickly and easily ping (check a client), mount/unmount volumes and check that volumes and disks haven’t changed, all client-side
• xsand – Xsan client daemon, reads the /Library/Filesystems/Xsan/config/automount.plist and mounts volumes as indicated in the property list

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