will dm-0 will always point to the same device across reboots irrespective of the the order in which devices are detected ? which is persistent /dev/dm-0 or /dev/mapper/<wwid> ? # ls -l /dev/mpath/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 24 01:45 3600805f300176640a435a927359c0003 -> ../dm-0 -lnxdm __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel