I agree 100%. If we went by "this is how we always did it," then we would not have ZFS :)
Charles (not to mention X64, CMT, or iPhones!;) On 6/4/08 10:55 AM, "Bob Friesenhahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Dave Miner wrote: >> >> Putting into the zpool command would feel odd to me, but I agree that >> there may be a useful utility here. > > There is value to putting this functionality in zpool for the same > reason that it was useful to put 'iostat' and other "duplicate" > functionality in zpool. For example, zpool can skip disks which are > already currently in use, or it can recommend whole disks (rather than > partitions) if none of the logical disk partitions are currently in > use. > > The zfs commands are currently at least an order of magnitude easier > to comprehend and use than the legacy commands related to storage > devices. It would be nice if the zfs commands will continue to > simplify what is now quite obtuse. > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ----- Charles Soto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director, Information Technology TEL: 512-740-1888 The University of Texas at Austin FAX: 512-475-9711 College of Communication, CMA 5.150G 1 University Station A0900, Austin, TX 78712 http://communication.utexas.edu/technology/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
