Hi, On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 12:46:25AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
[38 lines of irrelevance snipped out of a 71 line email] > I've printed drawers to fill those slots. The top slot has a bpi-m5 in it, > the bottom slot has a 5 volt 10 amp psu in it. slot 2 will have 2 of those > nearly 4T SSD's in a 2 drive adapter, with full disk partitions on them, so > obviously I should name the top one as "si-pwr-s2t". the bottom one then s/b > si-pwr-s2b > slot-3 then s/b si-pwr-s3t and si-pwr-s3b. > slot-4 then is giga-s4t1 and giga-s4t2. ditto for the bottom one. named > giga-s4b1 and giga-s4b2. 1 partition to hold amanda's database and one to > serve as amanda's holding disk. > > Whats so meaningless to you that you can't see the utility in that? I've got no issue with putting a drive identifier on the physical caddy/drawer that holds that drive. I do it myself. You have not ever before in this thread mentioned this, so neither I nor anyone else has objected to it. What I question the value of, is putting a drive identifier into a partlabel when the id of the partition will contain all of the same information. I have also asked you several times what it is you intend to do with that information in the context of a RAID array or LVM LV and you haven't yet been able to tell me. The closest you have come so far is saying, "I want to identify a drive when the array has problems". As you don't specify what those problems might be, all I am able to say to that is that you can either find the problem device from your logs or by listing the devices in the array/LV, and from there map to exact model and serial number from what's in the /dev/disk/by-id/. Now, I understand that you have multiple drives that have the same model and serial number. I accept that if you're going to use multiple of these in the same machine then that makes using by-id/ impossible. I've advised that I would never use multiple of these in the same machine because they are broken and will likely cause other problems further down the line. So if you want to say: despite the duplicate serial number issue I am determined to use multiple of these drives, so by-id/ is useless to me and I will instead replicate that info in partlabels and use /dev/disk/by-partlabel/, then okay! I don't agree with that course of action, but it is at least a cogent argument. So say if that's the case and we can just move on. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
