[OmniOS-discuss] Physical slot based disk names for LSI SAS on OmniOS?

[Narayan Desai]

I hacked up some scripts to deal with our similar setup. There are a few
things missing (like identify by name), but the scripts here will collect
data and match between all of the different identifiers that are used to
refer to a single device:
https://github.com/narayandesai/diy-lsi

Questions and patches welcome.
 -nld


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Chris Siebenmann <cks at cs.toronto.edu>wrote:

>  This is a long shot and I suspect that the answer is no, but: in
> OmniOS, is it possible somehow to have disk device names for disks
> behind LSI SAS controllers that are based on the physical slot ('phy')
> that the disk is found in instead of the disk's reported WNN or serial
> number?
>
> (I understand that this is only easy if there are no SAS expanders
> involved, which is the situation that I care about.)
>
>  I know that I can recover this information from prtconf -v with
> appropriate mangling, but our contemplated environment would be much
> more manageable if we could directly use physical slot based device
> naming.
>
>  Thanks in advance. I'll post a summary if there are any private
> replies (for anything besides 'nope, can't do it').
>
>         - cks
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