Newbie scsi question

Karthik Subramanian karthik301176 at gmail.com
Wed May 3 08:59:18 PDT 2006


On 5/3/06, Chuck Tuffli <ctuffli at xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Unfortunately, DragonFly (and most of the other *BSDs I think) doesn't
have a good answer for persistent binding. You can setup the kernel to
"wire down" a particular bus/target/lun to a specific device, but I
don't think this would work for SANs.
More on the same topic!

Here's an excerpt from the linux fstab(5) manpage:

--- snip ---

Instead of giving the device explicitly, one may indicate the (ext2 or
xfs) filesystem that is to be mounted by its UUID or volume label (cf.
e2label(8) or xfs_admin(8)), writing LABEL=<label> or UUID=<uuid>,
e.g., `LABEL=Boot' or `UUID=3e6be9de-8139-11d1-9106-a43f08d823a6'.
This will make the system more robust: adding or removing a SCSI disk
changes the disk device name but not the filesystem volume label.
--- snip ---

Wonder if something like this would make sense for DragonFly?

Cheers,
K.





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