Sundar, Sundar Yamunachari wrote: > William Schumann wrote: >> Automated Installer fdisk partition and VTOC slice management options ... >> Disk target contents >> Selection criteria: >> <element name="target_device_use_solaris_partition"> - >> boolean: "true"or "false" >> If "true", signals AI to select a disk that already has a >> Solaris2 partition >> Other selection criteria: >> <element name="target_device_name"> >> <!-- device name like c0t0d0 or MPXIO name like >> c0t2000002037CD9F72d0 --> >> <element name="target_device_type"> >> <element name="target_device_vendor"> >> <element name="target_device_size"> >> Changes to consider: >> add "target_device_devid_contains" - user specifies a >> substring of the devid >> > Can you provide an example for this change? This addresses bug 5451 No way to permanently target specific disk in AI engine manifest http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5451 To target a specific disk with an absolutely reliable and unchanging unique ID, the Device Id can be used. $ iostat -Eni ... c4t0d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 Vendor: ATA Product: HDS728080PLA380 Revision: A60A Device Id: id1,sd at AHDS728080PLA380=______PFDH32S6UD4L9M <<<<<<<< Size: 82.35GB <82348277760 bytes>
The user could provide at least a substring of this identifier as selection criteria to target this disk.
