Issue #10238 has been updated by Adrien Thebo.
This is actually a pretty cool fact, and I can see the utility. However, the concern that I have is that all the actual evaluation of the block devices happens outside of the setcode blocks, which means that this will only be evaluated at load time. If someone were to hot swap a hard drive and facter was running in a long running ruby process, it would not pick up the change. I'll run this by a dev and see what they think, but again, this would definitely be good to have inside facter. ---------------------------------------- Feature #10238: Add support for identifying block devices to Facter https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/10238 Author: Jason Gill Status: Needs Decision Priority: Low Assignee: Adrien Thebo Category: library Target version: Keywords: Branch: Affected Facter version: I've written a simple fact for Facter which parses /sys/block/ on Linux to identify block devices attached to the machine. This fact is serving as a good base for a hardware RAID querying fact that I'm working on, so I hoped to get it added to a future release of Facter. Additionally, users of the Puppet Inventory Service could find this quite handy for identifying the disks attached to machines (we have hundreds of servers with a large number of different disks and we're trying to identify machines that have older or slower drives still in use). You can find my code [over at github](https://github.com/jasongill/facter-factpack/blob/master/blockdevice.rb) Example output from a machine with 2x Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller arrays and a CD drive: blockdevice_sda => DELL PERC H700 blockdevice_sdb => DELL PERC H700 blockdevice_sr0 => TEAC DVD-ROM DV-28SW blockdevices => sda,sdb,sr0 Example output from a machine with two Western Digital SATA disks: blockdevice_sda => ATA WDC WD5000AAKS-0 blockdevice_sdb => ATA WDC WD5000AAKS-0 blockdevices => sda,sdb I'm open to feedback (or please close this if I'm out of line suggesting a new fact that I wrote) - this is my first real Ruby work! -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
