Patrick, I was wondering if you could explain a little bit of how lvm finds a device that no longer corresponds to the same 'dev/sd*' name. does it use some kind of device id or serial number? I just want to be doubly sure, as Steven Lembark claimed that it WOULDN't work.. Thanks, Matt Schillinger mschilli@vss.fsi.com On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 11:03, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:05:00AM -0600, Matt Schillinger wrote: > > If i'm NOT using devfs, can i reliably (assuming that disks are on the > > same scsi id/lun/host channel) use lvm? > > > > Scenario: > > > > LV is created with device /dev/sdd, which is on host channel 2 > > > > Machine is shutdown, and a new raid is connected on host channel 1, with > > one disk. > > > > Machine is restarted, and the 1 disk on the host channel 1 raid takes > > /dev/sdd. The original disk is now /dev/sde. > > > > Will LVM find the correct disk? > > > > Yes, that'll work fine. Getting LVM to work with those scsidev names > you mentioned in the first email will be quite a lot harder > (unless you use LVM2). > > patrick > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Matt Schillinger System Administrator FlightSafety International mschilli@vss.fsi.com 314-551-8403 _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
