Hi Patrick :) On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:07:36AM +0100, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > Patrick Mansfield wrote: > > > Here is some /dev, lsscsi and scsi_id output on a SLES9 system (rpm > > udev-021-36.55). by-path is basically pci and scsi bus_id's; by-id is > > basically scsi_id plus partition output. > > > Those are the names I'm trying to free people from. > > OK, multipath1 - multipath5000 aren't exactly friendly (but how else are you > going to name 5000 disks - there aren't that many Simpsons characters!) but > they're are a /lot/ easier to deal with than those I can see there. But we should not have a dm only solution. For that many disks, I don't see how it helps much, you must still deal with the specific id's at some level. I was thinking more about nice names for a few disks, or splitting disks into groups with a common prefix (and then still keep the long id portion). Enumerating names in shared/cluster setups probably makes things worse, though you could try to share or copy the file that maps wwid to the enumeration, the same thing for a udev solution. -- Patrick Mansfield -- dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
