On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 01:45:51PM -0500, Shawn Wells wrote: > Patrick Spinler wrote: [...] >> *) Device management >> >> It's convenient and easy in YaST to, for example, bring a new DASD >> online, dasdfmt it, partition it, and add it to a volume group. But >> using system-config-lvm? Not so easy. In fact, the information it >> displays is outright incorrect. Enough so that I'm quite adverse to >> trying to use it and messing things up. On one machine, for example, it >> shows /dev/dasdc under the list of "Uninitialized entities", despite the >> fact that /dev/dasdc1 is a active PVM in an active volume group. >> >> I can't comment on other device types, e.g. qeth devices, because we do >> those so infrequently in comparison. >> > Actually, Red Hat & IBM have been working on this one. > > IBM LTC 201690 > Red Hat BugZilla 463184 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463184) > > 1. Feature Overview: > Feature Id: [201690] > a. Name of Feature: Installer - FCP LUN discovery tool > b. Feature Description > This feature should exploit the functionality to discover the LUNs on the > Storage System for a given > FCP adapter and WWPN, integrating the LUNs discovered as a drop down list > (combobox) in the SCSI > configuration dialog, so that the customer does not have to manually give it. > > 3. Business Case > These changes will improve the installation experience for customers by making > the installation > workflow more usable and efficient, which will result on an improvement of the > customer > satisfaction. Without this feature is the input of a 64bit value in Hex (=16 > characters) not so so > usable and can produce errors and frustration for the customer.
Just FYI and because i understand the "Device management" comment referring to DASD management: IBM LTC 201690 is a tool that only allows discovery of LUNs in FCP/SCSI SANs, not DASDs. These are two different storage attachments with different needs (WWPNs and LUNs are part of the addressing scheme in FCP/SCSI). Christof Schmitt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
