Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote on 04/03/2012 05:56:54 PM:
> Personally, I'd never trust a script to automatically format a disk
> just because it is inserted in a certain carrier.
Thank you for that. That may be a perfectly logical option: but it's not
what I've chosen. (This is a solution that has been in production for 6
or more years, and in the direct hands of a couple dozen clients. Number
of initializations: *thousands*. Number of issues: ZERO.)
> Maybe something
> like making a small permanent partition with a label or UUID would
> let you detect it and figure out the base device if you really have
> to format different/larger partition on it in a script. The PCI bus
> address shouldn't change unless you move controller cards around,
though.
Once again, until Seagate et. al. sends them that way from the factory,
NOTHING that depends on the *contents* of the drive is going to help me.
Once the drive is initialized by the script, this might work great. But
because blank drives *WILL* be put into this system, I don't have much of
a choice.
To be clear:
1) Trained monkey takes brand new drive out of the box
2) Trained monkey installs it into the tray
3) Trained monkey clicks a button and the drive magically becomes usable.
There's no way the monkey is gonna get (or want, or even *accept*) console
access, so "figure out where that brand new drive is this time..." is not
an option.
I remember the bitter discussions regarding udev and I wondered what the
big deal was. I now know... :(
Tim Massey
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