Re: Newbie scsi question

["Karthik Subramanian" <karthik301176@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/3/06, Chuck Tuffli <ctuffli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Unfortunately, DragonFly (and most of the other *BSDs I think) doesn't
> have a good answer for persistent binding. You can setup the kernel to
> "wire down" a particular bus/target/lun to a specific device, but I
> don't think this would work for SANs.

More on the same topic!

Here's an excerpt from the linux fstab(5) manpage:

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Instead of giving the device explicitly, one may indicate the (ext2 or
xfs) filesystem that is to be mounted by its UUID or volume label (cf.
e2label(8) or xfs_admin(8)), writing LABEL=<label> or UUID=<uuid>,
e.g., `LABEL=Boot' or `UUID=3e6be9de-8139-11d1-9106-a43f08d823a6'.
This will make the system more robust: adding or removing a SCSI disk
changes the disk device name but not the filesystem volume label.

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Wonder if something like this would make sense for DragonFly?

Cheers,
K.