From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756527Ab1H3UHS (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:07:18 -0400 Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.162.213]:40299 "EHLO lennier.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755937Ab1H3UHP (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:07:15 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.3-dev To: Nao Nishijima Cc: Tejun Heo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net, Masami Hiramatsu , yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com, kay.sievers@gmail.com Subject: Re: [-v3 PATCH 0/3] Persistent device name using alias In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:54:29 +0900." <4E58E905.4020704@hitachi.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20110825090359.2288.91057.stgit@ltc197.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> <20110825101602.GI3286@htj.dyndns.org> <4E58C3BD.3000609@hitachi.com> <20110827102655.GJ2632@htj.dyndns.org> <4E58E905.4020704@hitachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1314734537_2796P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:02:17 -0400 Message-ID: <16628.1314734537@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mirapoint-Received-SPF: 198.82.161.152 auth3.smtp.vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 2 pass X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=zidane.cc.vt.edu X-Junkmail-Signature-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A020209.4E5D41CC.0036,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2010-07-22 22:03:31, dmn=2009-09-10 00:05:08, mode=single engine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1314734537_2796P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:54:29 +0900, Nao Nishijima said: > A kernel device names (e.g. sda) is not useful information because it > doesn't always point the same disk at each boot-up time. If this is important to you, can't you use a udev rule, similar to what most distros already stick in 70-persistent-net.rules and 70-persistent-cd.rules? (Yes, this *does* involve finding a UUID or label or something on the disk that you can identify as "same entity as last time". --==_Exmh_1314734537_2796P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFOXUHJcC3lWbTT17ARArGuAKC+725LVYwb/dYGXwY4YFM3659a3wCg3zqZ W/jiW7MSazRurJWosEVFpaY= =DGkn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1314734537_2796P--