On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ross Smith wrote: > > It sounds like you might be interested to read up on Eric Schrock's work. I > read today about some of the stuff he's been doing to bring integrated fault > management to Solaris: > http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock/entry/external_storage_enclosures_in_solaris > His last paragraph is great to see, Sun really do seem to be headed in the > right direction:
That does sound good. It seems like this effort is initially limited to SAS enclosures. It would be nice to see a special Solaris "JBOD" operating mode for firmware-managed RAID shelves. Currently there is no relationship between a LUN and a drive unless the administrator carefully establishes that mapping. The Solaris system does not know how the LUN is constructed. With a special "JBOD" mode the RAID shelf could put a set of drives into JBOD mode with a single command. The Solaris fault/device system could then be integrated so that it knows about drive errors, and knows how to enable lights and take drives in and out of service. I have no doubt that the Solaris command line administrative utilities that come with CAM could be used to do useful things but these may not be well documented. Bob _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
