Re: SCSI Device Addresses

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Subject: Re: SCSI Device Addresses
From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 14:31:30 +1100
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On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:01:49PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> UUIDs work for me.  Driver modules load in parallel and nothing will
> ensure consistent device names.  A unique identifier for the filesystem

Doesn't udev assign constant sdN/hdN identifiers? It appears to look up
the drive serial number and attempt to do this.

Also, if you run LVM or software RAID then you get static identifiers
out of those automatically, even with the underlying disks moving
around.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>

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