Richard Elling wrote:
> James C. McPherson wrote:
>> Will Murnane wrote:
>>   
>>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Benjamin Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>     
>>>> My question:  Where/how in the heck does one get a list of which devices 
>>>> are valid targets?
>>>>       
>>> Run "format" and it'll list the devices that are available.  If you
>>> hot-plug a drive, you may need to run "devfsadm -c disk" first, to
>>> make sure that entries in /dev are created for it.
>>>     
>> Some time ago I logged an RFE for this very issue
>>
>> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6605832
>>
>> 6605832 zpool could tell me what disks are available for use
>>
>>
>> It's still unassigned, unfortunately.
>>   
> 
> methinks this is a command which will be much more useful beyond
> the ZFS context.  In fact, it seems that the caiman project already has
> the code written to do this... just not externalized.  You might see if
> we could promote test_td.c into a useful sys-admin command.
> http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/caiman/snap_upgrade/usr/src/lib/libtd/test_td.c

Yes, that would be a very handy command to have around as a general
tool. Especially if it could say "slice X is used by (mountpoint/...)"
as well.


James
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Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
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