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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Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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