On Tuesday 30 August 2005 07:01, christophe varoqui wrote: > On lun, 2005-08-29 at 18:23 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I think you can setup dm-multipath based on WWNs, so the device > > numbers don't matter. Cc'ed the dm-devel list to verify my assumption. > > Yes, true for the multipathed devices, which leaves the problem intact > for the local drives ... There is no problem with multipath recognising different devices. Nor is there a problem with raid devices. at boot these are all recognised, if they change, no problem at all... situation we have: local disks in raid1 (i'd prefer sda + sdb) san disks are multipath (sdc and on...) problem is: lilo.conf... i say: [r|b]oot=/dev/md0 raid-extra-boot="/dev/sda, /dev/sdb" the last rule poses the problem. depending on how many multipath devices i have, i constantly have to change lilo.conf for every machine. in bsd, there is a way to set your drives to a fixed name, is there something alike in linux? or a sollution to this problem? (i'm definately willing to help find one, if there isn't... and i guess i'm not the only one with this problem?) thanks in advance all! (and sorry for the spamming) -- harry aka Rik Bobbaers K.U.Leuven - LUDIT -=- Tel: +32 485 52 71 50 Rik.Bobbaers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -=- http://harry.ulyssis.org Disclaimer: By sending an email to ANY of my addresses you are agreeing that: 1. I am by definition, "the intended recipient" 2. All information in the email is mine to do with as I see fit and make such financial profit, political mileage, or good joke as it lends itself to. In particular, I may quote it on usenet. 3. I may take the contents as representing the views of your company. 4. This overrides any disclaimer or statement of confidentiality that may be included on your message. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html