James C. McPherson wrote: > Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > >> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 08:26 +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: >> >>> How would you gather that information? >>> >> the tools to use would be dependant on the actual storage device in use. >> luxadm for A5x00 and V8x0 internal storage, sccli for 3xxx, etc., etc., >> > > No consistent interface to use, then, unless another tool > or cruft gets added to ZFS to make this happen. That would > seem to defeat one of the major wins of ZFS - storage > neutrality. > > > I'd be happy with an arbitrary field that could be assigned via a command. Intelligence could be added later if appropriate, but at this point, figuring out what-is-where on a big list of disk IDs on a SAN device is very difficult.
So, aiming low, a text field that could be assigned. In the future, perhaps something that would associate a serial number of something similar to that name? >>> How would you ensure that it stayed accurate in >>> a hotplug world? >>> >> See above. >> >> I'm told that with many jbod arrays, SES has the information. >> > > True, but that's still many, but not all. > > > James C. McPherson > -- > Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris > Sun Microsystems > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
