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author | David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com> | 2009-11-20 20:21:58 -0500 |
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committer | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2009-11-23 21:38:21 +0100 |
commit | 4e9fdfccbdd16f0cfdb5c8fa8484a8ba0f2e69d3 (patch) | |
tree | a033c562826b6a90c736837b4c128eb44f87c315 /rules | |
parent | 5d490002b339f33a033fe09cef4272afb38da676 (diff) |
scsi_id: Export WWN and Unit Serial Number
Since the Unit Serial Number and the WWN are useful bits of
information export them as properties in the udev database. These
bits of information are often printed on the physical disk, see
http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/FUJITSU-MAY2036RC-sas-disk-picture.jpg
and displaying them separately in the UI (or in /dev/disk) might help
users identify the physical disk. This patch exports these bits of
information as ID_WWN and ID_SCSI_SERIAL.
Note that ata_id also use the ID_WWN property since commit
66094a4a7fc1d303e80785d586800eae9841502b (2009-11-04).
Also print out ID_SCSI=1 so users of the udev database knows the disk
speaks SCSI.
Here's the scsi_id output from one of my SAS disks with these changes:
ID_SCSI=1
ID_VENDOR=FUJITSU
ID_VENDOR_ENC=FUJITSU\x20
ID_MODEL=MAY2036RC
ID_MODEL_ENC=MAY2036RC\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20
ID_REVISION=0103
ID_TYPE=disk
ID_SERIAL=3500000e01b83f520
ID_SERIAL_SHORT=500000e01b83f520
ID_WWN=0x500000e01b83f520
ID_SCSI_SERIAL=B3G1P8500RWT
Unfortunately we can't overload ID_SERIAL for two reasons
1. ID_SERIAL (and ID_SERIAL_SHORT) exported by scsi_id isn't really
the unit serial number (as defined by SCSI) - it is sometimes the
WWN (since it is more unique than the Unit Serial Number) and
complex rules (to make the serial unique) govern what value to
use.
2. It would break existing setups if the value of ID_SERIAL changed
Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
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