John Plocher wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Jerry Gilliam <jerry.gilliam at sun.com> > wrote: >> For the minor (major?) release only, I think it would be reasonable to >> modify iostat(1M) to -n behavior by default, effectively obsoleting >> -n and the <driver><instance> form of device name reporting. We would >> need to retain and ignore -n for compatibility I assume. > > This sounds good. All we need now is to update the log entries that > were mentioned... > > -John
That will not be so easily accomplished, those log messages are coming out of the kernel where there's not much information other than driver/instance number available. And I believe FMA is doing a better job of providing device error status than the message log. -jg