Also we need to be able to uniquely identify a drive because it might be
attached to a computer through 1, 2, 3 .... io cards within the system.
This way if someone was to trip over a connection to a drive, the system
can easily identify that the *SAME* device is accessable through a
different controller.
Rodger Wilson
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Rodger Wilson writes:
> > I quickly read through the paper, and came up with a question.
> >
> > Talking about persistence -- what about scsi device that dynamically
> > change their target id's (i.e. fiber channel). How do we make sure that
> > we continue to refernce disk1 as disk1. With a possible 16 million
> > devices this could get hairy.
> >
> > If we are wanting to have multi-pathed access to a drive it would be
> > nice to have that reflected in the dev tree, but it would also be
> > nice to easily refer to a unique drive, via WWN. By using the World
> > Wide Number we can make sure that we know exactly which drive we are
> > refering to.
>
> If by WWN you mean UUID (or a human-friendly label), then that's
> coming. Right now this is done in mount(8), so it won't work for the
> root FS. Check the linux-kernel archives for my planned solution to
> this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard....
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>
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