Issue #10238 has been updated by Jason Gill.
Ken I totally agree, having the size and other details (like SCSI LUN, etc) would be really great. However in this initial version I just went with what was most important to me - the names of the devices (sda sdb sdc) and the make/model (which has been really handy to find which machines have what type of drives, locate old drives, etc, with puppet inventory service). That being said, adding even more facts probably isn't the solution - on some of my boxes that have 500+ IP's up on them, it takes facter about 20 seconds to run and generate all ~1600 facts that come "out of the box" with 1.6.2. Would it be better to just add more in to the existing blockdevice_sda fact (like a comma separated list of values or some other ugliness)? Or is it possible that a future version of facter could support this sort of "advanced" fact in a hash style or similar? ---------------------------------------- Feature #10238: Add support for identifying block devices to Facter https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/10238 Author: Jason Gill Status: Tests Insufficient 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.
