From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:48624 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751092AbaLQPJB (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:09:01 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1GDf-0001Fq-Uf for linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:08:55 +0100 Received: from p4ff585d0.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([79.245.133.208]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:08:50 +0100 Received: from holger.hoffstaette by p4ff585d0.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:08:50 +0100 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org From: Holger =?iso-8859-1?q?Hoffst=E4tte?= Subject: Re: [RFC][BTRFS-PROGS] Improve output of mkfs.btrfs command Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:08:38 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1418673780-22000-1-git-send-email-kreijack@inwind.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:02:53 +0100, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote: > enclosed a patches set to improve the output of mkfs.btrfs command. This is very nice! I do have a comment about the device list: > .. > UUID ID SIZE PATH > ------------------------------------ -- --------- ----------- > 62121322-5666-4ecf-bc8e-c9b3d9f60db9 1 50.00GiB /dev/vdb > 6158cb13-3ae8-42b6-8603-660f1e5c8a7a 2 50.00GiB /dev/vdc > b49516db-ddf5-4f54-8831-a4babc79e901 3 50.00GiB /dev/vdd > 00b03d81-7d29-4894-8050-9dd205f97c41 4 50.00GiB /dev/vde > f119a2ec-5ef0-436c-805e-c1b0612b05ca 5 50.00GiB /dev/vdf > adee4f58-e094-4bd4-8c56-941527524f8d 6 50.00GiB /dev/vdg > a8299171-2024-4057-ba56-1f83bf6d7e2e 7 50.00GiB /dev/vdh > b694e275-e454-4dbd-beb0-e33c388cffa2 8 2.00GiB /dev/vdi > 7cbe04b5-36cd-4ea7-be82-206d5487914e 9 2.00GiB /dev/vdj > 7c320654-675e-456b-ac23-cfb148b8ea57 10 2.00GiB /dev/vdk > > Total disks size: 356.01GiB I'm not sure how others feel about this, but the first column of UUIDs contains almost no human-usable information (who remembers UUIDs?) but takes up a huge chunk of the screen real estate. I'd suggest to reorder the columns to be something like (ID, Size, Path, UUID). This puts more relevant information in reading-order. I hope this isn't too much to ask :) thanks Holger