Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Drive name slips... | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:10:33 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Chris Meadors <chris@hereintown.net> said: > "Raj, Ashok" wrote:
> > Linux kernel names the scsi drives sda, sdb .... so in case you switch > > slots, or move across to a different controller then its possible you > > can have very bad effects. Worst case is removing a drive and the drive > > device files dont have a persistant assiciation with the location, or > > do we have a magic superblock what the configured name was.
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> devfs takes care of this. With the devfs patches you can address your > drive by it's physical location, from controller all the way down to > partition.
That is exactly the wrong answer. What is needed is to address the _data_ on the disk, not it's ephemeral phyiscal location. Worse yet, having to become acquainted with esotherica like "controller all way down to partition". OTOH, if you take a look at current versions of mount(8), you _can_ mount by volume identifier and don't need all this nonsense at all. -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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