On Monday 05 of April 2010 22:28:14 Mike Ely wrote: > On 4/5/10 11:15 AM, "Andrey Borzenkov" <arvidjaar@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Monday 05 of April 2010 22:00:49 Mike Ely wrote: > >> (resending because our clunky old MTA doesn¹t know how to handle > >> greylisting) > >> > >> I'm wondering how to get open-iscsi and udev folks to work > >> together on a good solution for getting ISCSI volumes to map > >> consistently to a /dev/ entry. What would be a good starting > >> point for getting the discussion going? Currently the only > >> solutions I can find are some scripting tricks, but it¹d be nice > >> to see something a bit more integrated. Not all use cases > >> support filesystem labels. > > > > udev already includes path_id that generates persistent name for > > iSCSI device. Could you be more specific what exactly it misses? > > I'm not sure how to get path_id to work then. Here's an example of > it not working through several remounts on RHEL 5 - look at the > number of partitions in each volume to see how it's randomly > remapping: > path_id is used to generate persistent link under /dev/disk/by-path. sdX are not guaranteed to be persistent. > iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-4f489fb03-3c60003e5c34bb68-delete > me, portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260] I always find obfuscating of private addresses amusing :)
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