> Putting into the zpool command would feel odd to me, but I agree that > there may be a useful utility here.
There MAY be a useful utility here? I know this isn't your fight Dave, but this tipped me and I have to say something :) Can we agree that the format command lists the disks it can use because the format command is part of the user-facing disk storage software stack and listing what objects it can act upon is one of the most fundemental features of the user-facing tools of the stack?! It is for this reason alone that ZFS needs a similar feature. Because it makes sense. The other reason is to help people. Every time someone asks this question, all they get is "try format it might work?" Or "scroll through 200 lines of dmesg they might be there?" People have been asking for this basic feature for how long now? Years? Probably since ZFS was created? Every couple weeks or months someone pops up on IRC or a forum asking about it, and can you blame them? Every ZFS tutorial touts how easy it all is without ever mentioning how you get the disk names for the very first step. This has always seemed crazy to me, but I can see how people close to the problem would not see it. After all, you guys with with solaris every day, it is your job. I hope you can see though that such a feature would not feel odd. It would not be questionably useful. It is not really optional, in fact. It is a requirement for a product that lives outside the laboratory, and opensolaris is quickly moving that way.... This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
