On Jan 16, 2014, at 8:56 PM, Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Jan 16, 2014, at 7:33 PM, Alan M. Carroll <a...@network-geographics.com> > wrote: > >> I am working on command line access to the state of physical storage in the >> cache. Currently the interface looks like >> >> traffic_line --device /dev/sdb --cmd offline >> >> The --device must match a path in storage.config and if so, that physical >> device is marked offline as if it had failed. I'm in the final stages of >> cleanup for this feature, so it's time to comment on it if you think it >> could be better. > > > I don’t feel particularly strongly about it, but I probably would have > preferred e.g. > > traffic_line —offline /dev/sdb > traffic_line —online /dev/sdb > > > etc. It seems more inline with how things generally works already. I can see > the original proposal getting confusing if you later add commands which > should not take a —device option, but something else. It then gets possible > to postulate nonsensical combos.
I don't have a strong opinion on the command syntax, but I think that it would be useful to be able to query for status. J
