lsscsi 0.25 beta 1, adds --size

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]
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Doug Gilbert

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

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