Hi,

I have couple of softraid devices available in a box and when I do upgrade
I always have to check and not to make mistake which softraid device
I want to use as root disk.

If OpenBSD would have serial for softraid device I would just need to remember
the serial for my root disk.

This is similar output what install.sub's diskinfo() returns in installer:

# bioctl softraid0 | awk '$NF == "RAID1" { cmd=sprintf("bioctl -q %s",$(NF-1)); 
system(cmd); }'               
sd5: <OPENBSD, SR RAID 1, 006>, serial (unknown)
sd6: <OPENBSD, SR RAID 1, 006>, serial (unknown)
sd7: <OPENBSD, SR RAID 1, 006>, serial (unknown)
sd8: <OPENBSD, SR RAID 1, 006>, serial (unknown)
sd9: <OPENBSD, SR RAID 1, 006>, serial (unknown)

Is it because bd_serial is not implemented for softraid devices?

$ ag bd_serial /usr/src/sys/ 
/usr/src/sys/dev/ic/ami.c
2037:                   strlcpy(bd->bd_serial, ser, sizeof(bd->bd_serial));
2268:                           bzero(&bd->bd_serial, sizeof(bd->bd_serial));
2287:                           strlcpy(bd->bd_serial, ser,
2288:                               sizeof(bd->bd_serial));

/usr/src/sys/dev/ic/ciss.c
1068:                   bd->bd_serial[0] = '\0';
1090:                   strlcpy(bd->bd_serial, pdid->serial,
1091:                       sizeof(bd->bd_serial));

/usr/src/sys/dev/ic/mpi.c
3386:   /* bd_serial[32]; */

/usr/src/sys/dev/pci/arc.c
2256:   strlcpy(bd->bd_serial, serial, sizeof(bd->bd_serial));

/usr/src/sys/dev/pci/mpii.c
3596:   scsi_strvis(bd->bd_serial, ppg->serial, sizeof(ppg->serial));

/usr/src/sys/dev/biovar.h
111:    char            bd_serial[32];  /* serial number */

Jiri

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