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Re: SCSI Device Addresses



On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:20:24PM +0000, Steve Dobson wrote:
> 
> As the kernel is assigning disk IDs dynamically is there some way of
> forcing given devices to have given SCSI addresses.  Our plan is to have
> the 16 disks configured into 4 arrays of four disks each.  There maybe
> times when a disk array is taken off line and the disks pulled.  What I
> don't want is for the arrays "downstream" of the pulled array to be
> assigned different SCSI addresses and thus come up with the wrong file
> system on the mount points.

What about using labels or UUIDs for mounting?

Steffen


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