I have written a patch to permit system administrators to force display
of vdev GUIDs by passing `-g` to `zpool status`. It is currently in a
ZoL pull request:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/2012

This is intended to make it easier for system administrators to use
GUIDs to workaround corner cases on Linux, where the device identifiers
printed by `zpool status` are not accepted by the zpool
detach/offline/remove/replace commands.

The design of Linux's /dev makes it difficult to anticipate all possible
ways use of device names could go wrong. I would prefer to properly
handle all of them, but it seems practical to provide an easy way for
system administrators to access this information, at least until all of
the edge cases are caught.

Does anyone have any objections to the addition of this option?

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