ZFS should allow 31+NULL chars for a comment against each disk. This would work well with the host name string (I assume is max_hostname 255+NULL) If a disk fails it should report c6t4908029d0 failed "comment from disk", it should also remember the comment until reboot
This would be useful for DR, or in clusters. By the operator giving a disk a comment they can check it's existence on a different server, work out which one is missing and fix it before doing an import. You would also need a command to dump it out without importing a disk. In fact it would be nice to have a tool that check to see if a disk is a zfs disk and print out its info without the need to import it. Cheers _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
