[ANNOUNCE] lsscsi 0.25 beta 1, adds --size

[ANNOUNCE] lsscsi 0.25 beta 1, adds --size

[Douglas Gilbert]

Martin Petersen recently sent me some patches
to add a --size (or '-s') option to lsscsi:

# lsscsi -s
[0:0:0:0]  disk  ATA    INTEL SSD  2CV1 /dev/sda 80.0GB
[10:0:0:0] disk  Linux  scsi_debug 0004 /dev/sdb 1.09TB

Martin and I had several hacks at this. Getting
utilities to work reliably with sysfs across various
kernel versions continues to be a crap shoot. So
I am putting this out as a beta and hoping that
anyone with problems will contact me (or Martin).

Note that this logic decodes /sys/block/sda/size
(for example) so disks that are present but without
a block interface (e.g. physical disks in a RAID)
will not have a size shown ('-' is shown instead).

Version 0.25 beta 1 is available at:
     http://sg.danny.cz/scsi/lsscsi.html
More information can be found on that page including examples
and a Download section for the tarball:
   http://sg.danny.cz/scsi/lsscsi-0.25b1.tgz
There are no debian or redhat packages built for this beta.

Version 0.25 2011/03/04 [svn: r91]
   - add sas_port and fc_remote_ports transport information
   - print enclosure_device entry
   - add '--size' option to show size of disks
   - add '--protmode' option to show protection information mode

Version 0.24 2010/06/12 [svn: r83]
.....


Doug Gilbert

Re: [ANNOUNCE] lsscsi 0.25 beta 1, adds --size

[Douglas Gilbert]

On 11-03-11 09:33 PM, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Martin Petersen recently sent me some patches
> to add a --size (or '-s') option to lsscsi:
>
> # lsscsi -s
> [0:0:0:0] disk ATA INTEL SSD 2CV1 /dev/sda 80.0GB
> [10:0:0:0] disk Linux scsi_debug 0004 /dev/sdb 1.09TB
>
> Martin and I had several hacks at this. Getting
> utilities to work reliably with sysfs across various
> kernel versions continues to be a crap shoot. So
> I am putting this out as a beta and hoping that
> anyone with problems will contact me (or Martin).
>
> Note that this logic decodes /sys/block/sda/size
> (for example) so disks that are present but without
> a block interface (e.g. physical disks in a RAID)
> will not have a size shown ('-' is shown instead).
>
> Version 0.25 beta 1 is available at:
> http://sg.danny.cz/scsi/lsscsi.html
> More information can be found on that page including examples
> and a Download section for the tarball:
> http://sg.danny.cz/scsi/lsscsi-0.25b1.tgz
> There are no debian or redhat packages built for this beta.
>
> Version 0.25 2011/03/04 [svn: r91]
> - add sas_port and fc_remote_ports transport information
> - print enclosure_device entry
> - add '--size' option to show size of disks
> - add '--protmode' option to show protection information mode
>
> Version 0.24 2010/06/12 [svn: r83]
> .....

Recent versions of lsscsi will fail to show block
devices with recent kernels (e.g. lk 2.6.37 and
lk 2.6.38) that have these .config settings:
   CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
   CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=y

What will they dream up for _DEPRECATED_V3 ?

Doug Gilbert

Re: [ANNOUNCE] lsscsi 0.25 beta 1, adds --size

[Martin K. Petersen]

>>>>> "Doug" == Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> writes:

Doug> Recent versions of lsscsi will fail to show block devices with
Doug> recent kernels (e.g. lk 2.6.37 and lk 2.6.38) that have these
Doug> .config settings:
Doug>   CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=y

Yeah. I don't really understand how the deprecated layout is supposed to
work. There's no way to get from a device to the corresponding block
node.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering