On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Eric D. Mudama <edmud...@bounceswoosh.org> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16 at 13:47, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: >> >> On 11/16/11 13:27, James C. McPherson wrote: >>> >>> (and apart from "I don't understand >>> it therefore it must be bad" I don't know why you really would) >> >> I don't like mpxio disk names -- they make me work too hard and create >> fear of >> doing the wrong thing. >> >> Long hex strings are much harder to distinguish than short strings and >> it's >> much easier to get confused between two devices. humans are reasonably >> good >> at dealing with dense sets of small integers, and not quite so good at >> dealing >> with sparse sets of 64-bit and 128-bit values. >> >> are c2t5000C5002C68468Bd0 and c2t5000C5002C68468Bd0 the same or different? >> what about c2t5000C5002C68203Bd0 and c2t5000C5002C689ABFd0? >> >> are c2t5d0s0 and c2t6d0s0 the same or different? how about sd5a and sd5a? >> >> how much time did each of those comparisons take you? how quickly were >> you >> sure of your answer? > > The important part to me is that the 000C5002C68468B above is > typically printed on the label of the drive. Put a little sticker on > your sled with the contained WWN, and you won't make the mistake of > grabbing the wrong drive from the array again. (They need a support > group for that)
SES means you can blink the drive LED and, with a convenient mapping method, not have this issue again. :) - Rich _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
