Apple Xsan 1.4 - Manual (Page 88)

88 Chapter 3 Managing SAN Storage
3 In Terminal, type
$ sudo cvmkdir -k affinity path
where affinity is the affinity name of a storage pool in the volume and path is the
full path to the folder on the volume. If the name of the storage pool is 8 characters or
less, you can use the storage pool name for the affinity name. If the storage pool name
is longer than 8 characters, you must use the affinity name instead of the storage pool
name.
To see a storage pool’s affinity name, use the cat command in Terminal or use a text
editor such as TextEdit to look at the configuration file for the volume on the controller:
/Library/Filesystems/Xsan/config/<volume>.cfg
The affinity name for the storage pool is listed in this file next to the Affinity keyword in
the block of parameters for the storage pool (called a “stripe group” in the
configuration file). Look in the section of the file that defines stripe groups.
For example, to assign an affinity for the storage pool “pool1” to folder “gina audio”
which is inside the folder “projects” on the volume “audio,” you would type
$ sudo cvmkdir -k pool1 /Volumes/audio/projects/gina\ audio