[akinspe]

Not sure if you noticed this, but you need to have Leading Zeros for your directory structure, or 10 gets run before 2. I.e:

01
02
03
….
10
11
12

The default ls sorting order goes like this
1
10
11
12
2
3
4
5

I ran into that when applying iLife updates BEFORE I installed the Main iLife Package. Needless to say that didn’t quite work.

[akinspe]

Actually you CAN test an xsan without all the fibre goodness, but that’s really only to test the XSan admin app. You can create a single node Xsan that uses firewire drives as the LUNS/storage pools. This clearly isn’t the same as a real san and obviously you won’t be able to test throughput, etc. But it at least allows you to test xsan a bit. If you have an ADC select account you can d/l a dev version of Xsan to test out so your investment is minimal.

I would highly recommend Peachpit’s Xsan quick reference guide as it is an invaluable overview to all that is xsan.

[akinspe]

For those curious about NetBoot, it should be of little surprise that you’ll have to maintain separate images for PowerPC and Intel macs. Somewhere in my dreams I hoped that you could use the same image, but that would require some impossible magic.

In case you doubt:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303113

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