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Subject: Re: SCSI and SAN
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That's very right, but it needs a manual setup. Whereas I need to work on 
storage disks attached to system, to accomplish that i have to write a script 
and know in itself whether it is attached to SAN or not. I know mainly there 
are "sysctl kern.disks" storage attached to system, nothing else.

Thanks
Sharad Chandra

On Friday 05 October 2007 5:19 pm, Tom Evans wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 12:43 +0100, Tom Evans wrote:
> ....
>
> Excuse the formatting, my keyboard went nuts and decided I was done
> editing :o
>
> In addition to the example I showed, I was just going to say that the
> purpose of glabel is to stop referring to /dev/da[0-9]* and instead be
> able to refer to /dev/label/san_0_lun_0 (or whatever you like). I don't
> know of a way to automagically determine if a disk is in fact a SAN, but
> it cannot be too hard to figure out from dmesg + information about the
> disk.
>
> Once you have identified it LABEL IT! Then there is no more ambiguity.
>
> Regards
>
> Tom