On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:14:51AM -0700, eric kustarz wrote: > Ed Gould wrote: > >On May 3, 2006, at 8:52, eric kustarz wrote: > > > >>In the future, we are looking to add additional data to log and > >>retrieve, such > >>as hostname (for shared storage) or username (for delegated > >>administration). > > > > > >Why not include these in the initial implementation? They both strike > >me as important and valuable. > > The main goal is to record what commands have been done to the pool and > file systems (so we know if we have a problem code-wise or admin-wise). > Adding username and hostname are definitely useful but not necessary to > have a functional history. Adding internal events (such as when a > resilver started) or adding command history to ztest is also useful, but > not necessary to have a functional history for zfs. > > The username didn't seem as important now as we don't have delegated > administration yet.
That sounds like a job for auditing. > hostname is definitely intriguing and i'll see how much extra work > entails in getting that included. Particularly in HA-type environments. > So i agree that including these two pieces of information is definitely > important and valuable, but the major value will be in the actual > logging of the command history even without these two pieces. Yes, but, how hard is it really to add those two items? If the answer is "not very" then just do it :) Nico -- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
