Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 06, 2011 03:09:42 PM Lamar Owen wrote:
>> I've seen that happen before. It was a tad disconcerting at first, but,
>> yes, in the case I saw it a reboot made it back to sda.
>
> Oh, and /dev/sda is not necessarily the BIOS boot device, by the way. For
> instance, on my upstream EL 6.1 box:
>
> [root@www ~]# mount|grep boot
> /dev/sdag1 on /boot type ext4 (rw)
> [root@www ~]#
>
> That is not constant; I have seen it at /dev/sda1, and I have seen it
> everywhere in between.
>
> It will be interesting to see if 6.2 has deterministic behavior in device
> names.
Yeah, over the years, RH has been non-determistic (thinking of ethx). I
don't see why it shouldn't deterministically iterate over the channels,
which would make sda, sdb, etc, the same every time.
mark
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