Re: More consistent /dev/ mapping for ISCSI volumes in udev.

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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.


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