On Sun, Apr 02, 2017 at 06:14:50PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > Robert Peichaer wrote: > > Parsing dmesg output always tends to be fragile, but what about this? > > Use whatever is enclosed in <> in the dmesg output for a disk and get > > the size from disklabel. > > This looks insane. If somebody can tell us what output they want, we can > provide it in a more useful interface (sysctl, etc.) Then it might be useful > in other scenarios too.
Hi, yes IMO parsing /var/run/dmesg.boot is silly. It would be better way to have better interface to list disks, although I'm not able to provide diffs. My use case was running OpenBSD under qemu-kvm with direct-lun iscsi disks, all having same lun size, passed via qemu natively or via local block device on a Linux host. And my concern was how to distinguish these equaly big luns inside installer. j.
