Re: [zfs-discuss] Any rhyme or reason to disk dev names?

2011-12-21 Thread Ojamo, V.
fs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Matthew R. Wilson Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 1:39 AM To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Any rhyme or reason to disk dev names? Thank you for all of the good pointers, everyone. croinfo and diskinfo don't give me an

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any rhyme or reason to disk dev names?

2011-12-21 Thread Matthew R. Wilson
Thank you for all of the good pointers, everyone. croinfo and diskinfo don't give me any output, but that's not surprising since this is a home-built system. But it's good to know those utilities exist for production hardware. Making the association between the disk serial number and target number

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any rhyme or reason to disk dev names?

2011-12-21 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Dec 21, 2011, at 3:14 AM, James C. McPherson wrote: > On 21/12/11 05:58 PM, Matthew R. Wilson wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am curious to know if there is an easy way to guess or identify the >> device names of disks. Previously the /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 system made sense >> to me... I had a SATA cont

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any rhyme or reason to disk dev names?

2011-12-21 Thread Henrik Hjort
On 2011-12-21 09:22, v...@bb-c.de wrote: I am curious to know if there is an easy way to guess or identify the device names of disks. Have a look at the file /etc/path_to_inst. There you will find all device instances managed by a particular driver. The first entry of each line is the physica

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any rhyme or reason to disk dev names?

2011-12-21 Thread Shawn Ferry
On Dec 21, 2011, at 2:58, "Matthew R. Wilson" wrote: > Can anyone offer any suggestions on a way to predict the device naming, or at > least get the system to list the disks after I insert one without rebooting? You have gotten some good responses that should help you out. However, you shouldn

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any rhyme or reason to disk dev names?

2011-12-21 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Matthew R. Wilson wrote: > Hello, > > I am curious to know if there is an easy way to guess or identify the device > names of disks. Previously the /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 system made sense to me... > I had a SATA controller card with 8 ports, and they showed up with the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any rhyme or reason to disk dev names?

2011-12-21 Thread James C. McPherson
On 21/12/11 05:58 PM, Matthew R. Wilson wrote: Hello, I am curious to know if there is an easy way to guess or identify the device names of disks. Previously the /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 system made sense to me... I had a SATA controller card with 8 ports, and they showed up with the numbers 1-8 in the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any rhyme or reason to disk dev names?

2011-12-21 Thread Volker A. Brandt
> I am curious to know if there is an easy way to guess or identify > the device names of disks. Have a look at the file /etc/path_to_inst. There you will find all device instances managed by a particular driver. The first entry of each line is the physical device. If you then look in /dev/rdsk