Surprised that one of the most approachable outputs for any customer to
use which would enable simple identification/resolution of many
of these discussions didn't come up, namely:
cfgadm -al
for a reasonable physical mapping in which SAS/SATA drives are
relatively easy to map out by ID and of course by association
with their distinct physical controller paths.
And if you want to relate this view to the underlying physical
path to the device, then
cfgadm -alv
will clarify the physical mapping.
Both commands can take <controller>::<target> arguments if you
want to restrict the voluminous output somewhat.
BTW, you also should be looking to
mpathadm show LU <device>
to successfully decode the virtual device entries.
Craig
On 1 Mar 2011, at 16:10, Cindy Swearingen wrote:
> (Dave P...I sent this yesterday, but it bounced on your email address)
>
> A small comment from me would be to create some test pools and replace
> devices in the pools to see if device names remain the same or change
> during these operations.
>
> If the device names change and the pools are unhappy, retest similar
> operations while the pools' are exported.
>
> I've seen enough controller/device numbering wreak havoc on pool
> availability that I'm automatically paranoid when I see the controller
> numbering that you started with.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
> On 02/28/11 22:39, Dave Pooser wrote:
>> On 2/28/11 4:23 PM, "Garrett D'Amore" <garr...@nexenta.com> wrote:
>>> Drives are ordered in the order they are *enumerated* when they *first*
>>> show up in the system. *Ever*.
>> Is the same true of controllers? That is, will c12 remain c12 or
>> /pci@0,0/pci8086,340c@5 remain /pci@0,0/pci8086,340c@5 even if other
>> controllers are active?
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