I've notice what I'd consider a bug in both s10 (any recent patch level) and snv where 'iostat -E' output does not present the listed devices' serial numbers.
I did some digging and found that, on line 8680 of usr/src/uts/common/ io/scsi/targets/sd.c, the sd driver is being explicitly told not to set the "Serial No" kstat if the device's vendor PID does not contain "SUN" (eg; ST336605LSUN36G) The comment above this block makes this pretty clear, however I'm pretty certain this policy should be relaxed so that a drive's serial number is recorded regardless of the drive's providence. Currently on a system with any non-SUN disks, there's no way of retrieving the serial number of those drives without a 3rd party tool. Before I submit a CR for this (and the 2 line fix for it) I'd like to know from people who might be in-the-know whether this is an acceptable route to take because the circumstances seem kind of peculiar. /dale _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
