Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Mar 2001 19:23:18 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: magic device renumbering was -- Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20 |
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In article <Pine.SGI.4.31L.02.0103141026460.532128-100000@irix2.gl.umbc.edu> you wrote:
> The problem:
> drivers change their detection schemes; and changes in the kernel can > change the order in which devices are assigned names. > > For example, the DAC960(?) drivers changed their order of > detecting controllers, and I did _not_ have fun, given that the machine in > question had about 40 disks to deal with, spread across two controllers.
Put LABEL=<label set with e2label> in you fstab in place of the device name.
Christoph
P.S. UUID= work, too - but I prefer a human-readable label... -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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