Re: Storage device enumeration script

Hi,

Great tool, thanks for sharing.

I had to add some error handling to get it to work properly.
Currently it runs on Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04.

Added the check John Robinson asked for as well.

Attached patch for those interested.


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Thanks
Torbjørn

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 23:03 -0400, Phil Turmel wrote:

Hi All,

Last November, I shared a shell script that helped me keep track of the specific hot-swap drives I had in the various slots of my servers.  Although encouraged by Roman and John, I declined to make a project out of it.

I've since kicked it around some more, and thought a bit about supporting more than just the SCSI subsystem.  The latest and greatest is still built around some standard executables:  blkid, lspci, lsusb, sginfo, and smartctl.  The original was similar to "lsscsi", but with controller details and device serial numbers.

New features:
	Supports non-SCSI storage devices
	Describes layered block devices
		MD raid
		LVM
		generic device mapper
		loop (partial)
	Shows UUIDs
	Shows mountpoints
	Avoids repeating subtrees when enumerating raid devices

I struggled with the last item, until I gave up on bash.  I needed to pass data to subroutines by reference, and bash is sorely lacking in that area.  The new script is in python.  I'm releasing this one under the GPL version 2.

Please give it a whirl.

Phil

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Torbjørn Skagestad
Idé Til Produkt AS
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