John Plocher wrote:
>
> I assume that the duplicated "Example 2" heading is a typo, and that
> "disable" removes the links created by "enable" (the proposal never
> explicitly says it does...)
>
Yes, and the DESCRIPTION section of the man page does note that
When disabled, ucblinks(1B) is run in clean-up (-C) and
ucb device names will no longer be reconstructed on
reconfigure boot.
so the clean-up is the intended behavior on disable.
I'll update the spec with that correction (amongst others) for
the final version.
>
> For completeness, it would be good if you also updated the tools (such
> as iostat) and system error log messages to generate correct device
> names by default, since with the removal of usb names, their output
> will become something between deliberately misleading and wrong :-)
> Yes, I know this opens a stability-of-output can of worms, but being
> able to fix these types of reality mismatches is exactly why the next
> "Solaris" is being positioned as a major release...
>
> -John
The heavy lifting has already been done to modify iostat(1M) to
display CTD names. However this is not the default, one must use -n.
See PSARC/2005/574, MPxIO iostat improvements.
The difference:
tethys:jg[118] % iostat
tty sd0 sd1 sd2 nfs1 cpu
tin tout kps tps serv kps tps serv kps tps serv kps tps serv us
sy wt id
0 15 0 0 0 21 1 15 0 0 0 5 1 113 1
0 0 99
tethys:jg[119] % iostat -n
tty c7t0d0 c7t1d0 c7t2d0 jurassic-x460 cpu
tin tout kps tps serv kps tps serv kps tps serv kps tps serv us
sy wt id
0 15 0 0 0 21 1 15 0 0 0 5 1 113 1
0 0 99
For the minor (major?) release only, I think it would be reasonable to
modify iostat(1M) to -n behavior by default, effectively obsoleting
-n and the <driver><instance> form of device name reporting. We would
need to retain and ignore -n for compatibility I assume.
If that is acceptable, I can amend the materials.
-jg
