Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-07 Thread Charles Polisher
Rudi Ahlers wrote: John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: snip / But as with so many posts on the mailing lists these days everyone seem to wonder off from the original topic and not even bother to help with OP with the original question. Surely he has a good reason why

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Cal Sawyer
Apologies in advance for excerpting or leaving out the messages sent to the list as i was in digest mode so got them all in one lump. Rudi Ahlers: You could assign a LABEL to each hard drive. The LABEL is attached to the drive's UID (I think?) so even if you move the drive to anther port it

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Cal Sawyer cal.saw...@artsalliancemedia.com wrote: Apologies in advance for excerpting or leaving out the messages sent to the list as i was in digest mode so got them all in one lump. Rudi Ahlers: You could assign a LABEL to each hard drive. The LABEL is

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Cal Sawyer
The reason for the udev hotplug rule is simply for the purpose of mounting removable devices as read-only. If udev is left to its devices, everything plugged up is read-write which is verboten in this application. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way (i've found) to distinguish, at

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Cal Sawyer
Sawyer Subject: Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices? On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Cal Sawyer cal.saw...@artsalliancemedia.com wrote: Apologies in advance for excerpting or leaving out the messages sent to the list as i was in digest mode so got them all in one lump

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 1 Apr 2011 11:05:35 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: The reason for the udev hotplug rule is simply for the purpose of mounting removable devices as read-only. If udev is left to its devices, everything plugged up is read-write which is verboten in this

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, April 01, 2011 04:23:40 am Rudi Ahlers wrote: Yes, that's why you assign a LABEL to the device :) According to the OP's initial message, I think he's already doing this: SATA system HDD /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / RAID array LABEL=STORE /store ## mounts ==

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Nope sir. Assume never the same device twice and no control over those devices, so UUID is out of the question. UUID is out of the question where I have 3 drives (main and two backup) with wear leveling wherein ANY of the drives, put in /dev/sda's position, is

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Cal Sawyer
to be a replacement for it at some point? - cal sawyer   -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Lamar Owen Sent: 01 April 2011 14:18 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices? On Friday

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Cal Sawyer
. - csawyer -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Brunner, Brian T. Sent: 01 April 2011 14:51 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices? centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Nope sir

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, April 01, 2011 09:53:06 am Cal Sawyer wrote: Nope, no LVM on the RIAD array. It just needs to load right after the main LVM so that something removable doesn't wiggle its way in and mess up the device order. Ok, so the LVM line was for the previous filesystem; it wasn't

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Robert Heller
[mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Brunner, Brian T. Sent: 01 April 2011 14:51 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices? centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Nope sir. Assume never the same device twice and no control over those

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Cal Sawyer
Sent: 01 April 2011 15:19 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices? On Friday, April 01, 2011 09:53:06 am Cal Sawyer wrote: Nope, no LVM on the RIAD array. It just needs to load right after the main LVM so that something removable doesn't wiggle its

[CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-03-31 Thread Cal Sawyer
Hi CentOS 5.4(final) 2.6.18-164el5PAE. I am trying to prevent removable USB and eSATA devices from occupying /dev/sdX devices ahead of a 3ware RAID controller. For example: at boot, if a USB drive and eSATA HDD (connected to an LSI 1068E onboard controller, reflashed in IT mode to handle

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-03-31 Thread Phil Schaffner
Cal Sawyer wrote on 03/31/2011 08:13 AM: Hi CentOS 5.4(final) 2.6.18-164el5PAE. I hope you are aware that you are using a very obsolete OS with a lot of known (i.e. exploitable) security holes and bugs that have subsequently been fixed. ... I realise this description is kind of a tangle

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-03-31 Thread Nick
On 31/03/11 15:24, Phil Schaffner wrote: Cal Sawyer wrote on 03/31/2011 08:13 AM: CentOS 5.4(final) 2.6.18-164el5PAE. I hope you are aware that you are using a very obsolete OS with a lot of known (i.e. exploitable) security holes and bugs that have subsequently been fixed. Do you really

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-03-31 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Nick oinksoc...@letterboxes.org wrote: On 31/03/11 15:24, Phil Schaffner wrote: Cal Sawyer wrote on 03/31/2011 08:13 AM: CentOS 5.4(final) 2.6.18-164el5PAE. I hope you are aware that you are using a very obsolete OS with a lot of known (i.e. exploitable)

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-03-31 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Nick oinksoc...@letterboxes.org wrote: On 31/03/11 15:24, Phil Schaffner wrote: Cal Sawyer wrote on 03/31/2011 08:13 AM: CentOS 5.4(final) 2.6.18-164el5PAE. I hope you are aware that

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-03-31 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 06:57:00PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: I don't think the OP asked how secure, or in-secure, his system is. So please try and keep on-topic? Whether asked for or not it is negligent to _not_ point out that there are holes large enough to fly a space

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-03-31 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:02 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 06:57:00PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: I don't think the OP asked how secure, or in-secure, his system is. So please try and keep on-topic? Whether asked for or not it is negligent to

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-03-31 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 31, 2011 10:24:42 am Phil Schaffner wrote: I hope you are aware that you are using a very obsolete OS with a lot of known (i.e. exploitable) security holes and bugs that have subsequently been fixed. No to pick on you, Phil, but the OP may have very specific reasons to run