Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) | Date | Sun, 20 Jun 1999 20:38:00 -0400 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <19990620115838.B7018@chelm.cs.nmt.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu w rites: +----- | On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 08:40:44AM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: | > SCSI (and IDE?) devices get named in the order they're detected, without | > regard for their physical addresses. So if you have disks on scsi0 id0 lun | 0 | > and scsi0 id4 lun0 they get named /dev/sda and /dev/sdb; if you add a disk | on | > scsi0 id2, it becomes /dev/sdb and the old sdb is suddenly /dev/sdc. | | So where do you want the authoritative name to come from? The disk? A | database? +--->8
devfs uses the hardware address, which works for me...
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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