Re: Utility to list /dev/nodes & serno's

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/19/2010 14:54, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:
> Using this mechanism you can export other kinds of information as well
> (disks have lots of attributes you want to know about) in a way that
> will effortlessly work across many kernel versions. I don't think
> manually running udevd in single user mode is such a big deal (you could
> even autostart it. You're root in single user mode). The script is also
> less robust wrt hotplug events that move disks around (this isn't
> realistic with physical swapping of disks, but might be an issue with
> network storage).

Well, I thought we're talking about a simple utility to help the user 
find the corresponding /dev/serno/... for e.g. a /dev/da... node and not 
about some full fledged disk attribute dumping utility (which tuxillo's 
doesn't seem to be). If that is what's wanted here, we should use a 
different name at least (devattr(8) perhaps? any other ideas?) and view 
the serno information as a first feature with more to come.

Sascha