On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 3:09 PM Phillip Susi <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Every time I think about this I find myself amayzed that it does seem to > be so stable, and wonder how that can be. The drives are all enumerated > in paralell these days so the order they get assigned in should be a > total crap shoot, shouldn't it? Well, there are several possible explanations, but persistence is desireable - so evidently enumeration occurs according to controller order in a repeatable way until something changes in the configuration - or until you change kernel, someone does something funny with a driver and the order changes. In 28 years of using Linux, however, this has happened.. rarely, save for before things were sensible WAY back when. LF
