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SubjectRe: devfs
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Followup to:  <199808071824.OAA29331@pretzel.normnet.org>
By author: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> If a user-level program will make sure my /dev entries are accurate on
> boot-up, great! Is that possible?
>

Yes; Eric Youngdale wrote a program called scsidev which does it for
SCSI devices.

> > > Putting devices in "scan order" never made sense to me. Why should
> > > the first SCSI drive scanned be /dev/sda? What happens when I switch
> > > the cables and drives around. Same filesystems, but the devices have
> > > all changed.
> >
> > And this doesnt need kernel help either. In fact using device scan
> > order is often more convenient than device position. When it comes
> > to volume management of a big system both of these (and Solaris)
> > are equally dumb approaches.
>
> Convenient for whom? Kernel programmers or admins/users?
>
> What would you suggest as a smart approach to volume management?
>
> > It all comes down to
> >
> > mount `wherehasitgone --uuid=blah` /mnt/mydisk
> >
> > And wherehasitgone is a tool to walk the disk tree and find a
> > volume by uuid and/or maybe ask LDAP/NIS maps to find it via NFS
>
> What would this look like in /etc/fstab?
>

Probably something like:

uuid:"blah" /mnt/mydisk ...etc...

Yes, support needs to be added for it, but it is the right way to
solve this problem; *most* reconfigurations of systems large enough
for this to be an issue at all involve controller, bus, and/or ID
changes, which means that volume labels and uuids are what matters,
not "location".

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