Apple Xsan 1.4 - Manual (Page 87)

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5 Choose the storage pool (where the folder’s contents will be stored) from the Storage
Pool Affinity pop-up menu in the dialog that appears.
If the storage pool you want to use is not listed in the Storage Pool Affinity pop-up
menu, it might not be set to allow user data. To check, select the SAN in the SAN
Components list on the left, click Setup, and click Storage. Then select the storage pool,
click the Edit button, and check which data types are enabled next to Use For.
6 Click OK, and then click Save.
From the Command Line
You can also assign an affinity to a folder using the cvmkdir command in Terminal.
For more information, see the cvmkdir man page or “Assigning an Affinity to a Folder
Within a Folder” on page 87.
Assigning an Affinity to a Folder Within a Folder
You can use Xsan Admin to assign an affinity to a folder at the top, or root, level of a
volume, but to assign an affinity to a folder that is inside another folder you need to
use the cvmkdir command-line tool.
To assign a storage pool affinity to a folder within a folder:
1 Open Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities/).
2 If you are not working at a SAN controller, use SSH to log in to the controller remotely:
$ ssh user@computer
where user is an administrator user on the controller computer and computer is the
controller’s name or IP address.