Subject: Re: PATCH: `dkctl dev' shows everything
To: None <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/05/2007 10:48:00
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:35:27PM +0900, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> This patch makes dkctl(8) command show all the available
> infomation about the device (== you don't need to type long
> command names).
> 
>         http://www.NetBSD.org/~uebayasi/dkctl.patch
> 
> Result looks like:
> 
>         # dkctl wd0
>         strategy:
>         wd0d: disksort
> 
>         cache:
>         wd0d: read cache enabled
>         wd0d: write-back cache enabled
>         wd0d: read cache enable is not changeable
>         wd0d: write cache enable is changeable
>         wd0d: cache parameters are not savable
> 
>         wedges:
>         wd0d: 6 wedges:
>         dk5: wd0h, 314711651 blocks at 173569599, type: ffs
>         dk5 at wd0: wd0h
>         dk5: 314711651 blocks at 173569599, type: ffs

This is nice.  One nit: it seems more appropriate to show the cache
parameters, wedges, et cetera, as properties of the disk itself (wd0)
than to show them as properties of the raw partition (wd0d).

Dave

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