Hi,
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 12:05:25AM +0100, Stephen Harris wrote:
>
> The problem I raised is when the hardware path is not well defined (eg on
> a SAN, where disk addresses may change). For the hardware path to be well
> defined we _need_ the concept of a WWN to be visible.
But we don't _need_ the hardware path unless we are formatting the
device initially. Addressing by content after that point makes the
problems with the variable hardware path irrelevant.
--Stephen
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