Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jul 1997 12:56:11 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mark H. Wood" <> | Subject | Re: kernel-managed /dev, revisited |
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On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote:
> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 04:20:25 -0400 > From: Jeff Garzik <jeff.garzik@spinne.com> > > Solaris is kinda fun to play with, and the guys at Sun occasionally have > a good idea or two. > > One of my biggest Linux pet peeves is having to reshuffle my !@#$@! > /etc/fstab every time I reshuffle my drives. [I do know about > Youngdale's tools for this] Running a news server means many SCSI ids, > many SCSI hosts, and a lot of reshuffling, on into the night... > > You think this is bad, life's going to get even more interesting when/if SCAM > (SCSI Configured Auto-Magically) becomes popular. It's possible for SCSI IDs > to change after a SCSI bus reset if there are SCAM devices, alas. There's > apparently no guarantee that the SCSI IDs will get assigned the same way every > time. > > Why, oh why, couldn't they have left well enough alone...
Mainframers figured this one out a long time ago. Label your media, and extend the connect-media-to-the-filesystem function (mount(8) in our case) to mount by label content instead of physical location. So your fstab could look like:
... none /usr ext2 defaults,l="apps01" 1 1 none /home1 ext2 defaults,l="users00" 1 1 none /home2 ext2 defaults,l="users01" 1 1 ...
or maybe:
... (apps01) /usr ext2 defaults 1 1 (users00) /home1 ext2 defaults 1 1 (users01) /home2 ext2 defaults 1 1 ...
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer MWOOD@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU Those who will not learn from history are doomed to reimplement it.
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