On Dec 29, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Richard Yao <r...@gentoo.org> wrote: > I have written a patch to permit system administrators to force display > of vdev GUIDs by passing `-g` to `zpool status`. It is currently in a > ZoL pull request:
good idea! > > https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/2012 > > This is intended to make it easier for system administrators to use > GUIDs to workaround corner cases on Linux, where the device identifiers > printed by `zpool status` are not accepted by the zpool > detach/offline/remove/replace commands. > > The design of Linux's /dev makes it difficult to anticipate all possible > ways use of device names could go wrong. I would prefer to properly > handle all of them, but it seems practical to provide an easy way for > system administrators to access this information, at least until all of > the edge cases are caught. not only Linux… the whole multipathing world really needs this :-) > > Does anyone have any objections to the addition of this option? go for it! — richard -- ZFS storage and performance consulting at http://www.RichardElling.com _______________________________________________ developer mailing list developer@open-zfs.org http://lists.open-zfs.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
