Gregory Shaw wrote: > Hi. I'd like to request a feature be added to zfs. Currently, on > SAN attached disk, zpool shows up with a big WWN for the disk. If > ZFS (or the zpool command, in particular) had a text field for > arbitrary information, it would be possible to add something that > would indicate what LUN on what array the disk in question might be. > This would make troubleshooting and general understanding of the > actual storage layout much simpler, as you'd know something about any > disks that are encountering problems. > > Something like: > > zpool status > pool: local > state: ONLINE > scrub: scrub completed with 0 errors on Sun Sep 23 04:16:33 2007 > config: > > NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM NOTE > local ONLINE 0 0 0 > raidz1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > c2t0d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 Internal SATA on > left side > c2t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 Internal SATA on > right side > c2t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 External SATA disk 1 > in box on top > c2t4d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 External SATA disk 2 > in box on top > spares > c2t5d0 AVAIL External SATA disk 3 > in box on top > > errors: No known data errors > > > The above would be very useful should a disk fail to identify what > device is what.
How would you gather that information? How would you ensure that it stayed accurate in a hotplug world? 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
