>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Paul, >> Linux does not provide device discovery ordering guarantees. You need >> to fix your scripts to use UUIDs, filesystem labels, or DM devices to >> get stable naming. Paul> Indeed. But it worked for several years, so that *something* must Paul> have changed that the ordering of the result of `getdents64` is Paul> different now. Could be changes in the PCI or platform code that causes things to be enumerated differently. Whatever it is, it has nothing to do with the 3ware drivers themselves since they have been dormant for a long time. Paul> Fixing the scripts is unfortunately not that easy, as `tw_cli` is Paul> a proprietary tool [1], and we do not have the sources. It does a Paul> `readdir()`. That's beside the point. Whatever you are doing that needs to address a specific physical controller needs to use a different scheme than discovery order to do so. Don't know if these cards provide a device identification VPD or something with a serial number that you could key off of? -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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
