On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 08:17 +1200, Richard Scobie wrote: > James Bottomley wrote: > > > Not really ... relying on a specific sdX name has been deprecated for a > > while. To ensure absolute ordering, you should be using the device by > > id or by label. > > > > James > > Thanks. I was trying to avoid the extra work of modifying smartd.conf > files after drives are replaced, which seem to only be able to use > /dev/sdX, or am I missing something? Depends how you're doing it. I'm pretty sure smartmon is perfectly capable of using /dev/disk/by-id/X; some of the maintainers are on this list, so they can comment further. However, the auto generator for it (if that's what you're using) always emits /dev/sdX, so I agree you have a problem with autogenerated files. James -- 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
