Rodger Wilson writes:
> In your paper /dev looks like the actual dev tree. If I remember right
> you said earlier that there was also a directory with friendly names that
> were nothing but sym-links.
Yep. They are placed under /dev.
> If devices are organized by target id how do we make sure that names
> don't get swaped after a reboot.
By using UUIDs or labels (or the unique identifier you mentioned for
SCSI 3 devices). Trawl the kernel archives for my plan (not
implemented yet).
> 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
What is "LIP"?
We use labels to solve this.
Regards,
Richard....
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