Re: devfs persistence

Rodger Wilson {I/O Software} (Rodger.Wilson@central.sun.com)
Thu, 27 Apr 2000 15:30:44 -0600 (MDT)

But if we have persistence set up right it will find the drive anyway.
The frame work should refer to FC (may all SCSI3) drives by wwn. This
would make linux much more robust, because if for example, a server goes
down in the night and then reboots it will be able to figure out which
drives are which by the WWN. That is why after all why WWN's are placed
onto the drives.

Rodger Wilson
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> In article <Pine.GSO.4.21.0004271308270.18773-100000@osage> you wrote:
> > For example lets say that we bring down a machine and durring this time
> > there is a LIP on our FCAL and two of the drives swap id's, then on reboot
> > the system thinks the drive that was used for /home is / and the drive for
> > / is /home
>
> This is why you can mount by partition-label. (see man e2label)
>
> Greetings,
> Arjan van de Ven
>

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