Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Jun 1999 11:58:38 -0600 | From | yodaiken@chelm ... | Subject | Re: UUIDs (and devfs and major/minor numbers) |
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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 lun0 > 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?
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