Once upon a time, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > 1. sw-raid arrays - how do you not rely on device names when trying to > fail-out a drive? We need a "locator"; something that can take a device name and blink the activity LED at a regular rate. This could be "tricky" with a failed drive however (because you don't really want to read from it). Will the activity LED blink for other actions on typical drives? I know the LED on some CD drives will blink when checking to see if media is in the drive. > 2. adding a new disk to a system. The new disk has been a boot disk for > another older system. Suddenly you have two partitions labeled / > and /var. How do you get out of that w/o booting up and making fstab > mount via device name? This is a problem, especially at boot. You can also have problems with LVM if you have drives with different volumes on them that have the same name. I always name my volumes based on the host name instead of LogVol00. Mount by UUID instead of by label should solve the first problem, but it doesn't help with LVM. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
