Re: What can be used instead of /dev/disk/by-path/* symlinks?

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On 12/17/2013 4:02 AM, Dorau, Lukasz wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 10:41 AM Neil Brown (neilb@xxxxxxx) wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 09:10:44 +0000 "Dorau, Lukasz" <lukasz.dorau@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
> [...]
>> Personally, I really don't care.  Does anyone know what udev changed?  Maybe
>> we should ask udev developers to change it back.
>>
>> NeilBrown
>>
> 
> udev developers wrote:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/udev/udev-builtin-path_id.c#n378
> 
>         /*
>          * We do not support the ATA transport class, it uses global counters
>          * to name the ata devices which numbers spread across multiple
>          * controllers.
>          *
>          * The real link numbers are not exported. Also, possible chains of ports
>          * behind port multipliers cannot be composed that way.
>          *
>          * Until all that is solved at the kernel level, there are no by-path/
>          * links for ATA devices.
>          */

I think you should be using libata instead of the old IDE drivers.
Doing so should avoid this problem, if I'm understanding it correctly.

-- 
Stan

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