On 10/4/19 11:39 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Have you already had a look at the /dev/disk/by-path directory? An > example of the contents of that directory: > > $ (cd /dev/disk/by-path && ls -l | grep /s) > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Oct 3 16:49 pci-0000:00:02.0-ata-1 -> ../../sda > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Oct 3 16:49 pci-0000:00:08.0-scsi-0:0:0:1 -> > ../../sr0 > > Have you considered to use these soft links in /etc/fstab? > > In case using these links would be impractical: have you considered to > add a udev rule that creates H:C:I:L soft links under a subdirectory of > /dev, that makes these soft links point at the /dev/sd* device nodes and > to use these soft links in /etc/fstab? That's probably a much more > elegant solution than what has been proposed above. > > As one can see the information that is needed to implement such a udev > rule is already available in sysfs: > > $ (cd /sys/class/scsi_device && ls -ld */device/block/*) > drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Oct 3 16:48 2:0:0:1/device/block/sr0 > drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Oct 3 16:48 3:0:0:0/device/block/sda > > Bart. Thanks for the reply! I wasn't aware that sysfs exposed the mapping that way. That is very useful, and we should be able to utilize that. Regards, Bradley LaBoon
