I have a xsan. There are four clients running 10.8.5 and two mdc mac mini's running 10.8.5. The clients are unable to get search results of items on the san volumes. Any help would be appreciated.
Did your volume failover? Is another controller hosting it?
What you have done to resolve this? Have you tried mdfind to see if it lists results from your SAN volume?
The current attempts are as follows:
I removed the clients from the Xsan, and left one of two mdc up.
I ran repair disk permissions on the boot drive
I disable spotlight on the volume fron the Xsan admin
In the terminal window, I ran the following: sudo rm -rf /Volumes/[VolumeName]/.Spotlight-V100
in the terminal window, I ran the following: sudo cvfsck -wv [VolumeName]
I re-enable the spotlight on the volume fron the Xsan admin
After four days it is still showing estimating indexing in the spotlight menu.
This is a 40tb RAID Promise with 17tb free
Try unmounting and remounting on the active MDC. Wait a few minutes. Check output of "mdutil -asv". Note the volume must be mounted on the active MDC for indexing to occur. A client must mount the volume after Spotlight is enabled. Note that "client" also applies to the active MDC when it is doing the indexing.
These are old but contain relevant information:
Xsan 2: Spotlight may take an unusually long time to index Xsan volumes - Apple Support
What is the importance of "Note that "client" also applies to the active MDC when it is doing the indexing."?
The MDC is also a client.
So if I left a MDC as a client of the SAN during the indexing the indexing may failed?
The active MDC does the indexing. It's not the fsm process that runs the volume that does the indexing, but rather Spotlight related processes (mds, mdworking, mdimport, etc) which are accessing files on the volume which the MDC has mounted as an Xsan client. The volume has to be mounted on the active MDC for indexing to work. The mount has to occur after Spotlight has been enabled on the volume.
As stated in this article:
"Use Xsan Admin to unmount and remount the volume on the controller that is currently hosting the volume. It may still take several minutes for Spotlight to activate."
You could also do this on the MDC (which you would have to do if it's a Yosemite MDC):
sudo xsanctl unmount VolumeName
sudo xsanctl mount VolumeName
spotlight on xsan not working for clients
