Alex and others - Thanks. I think I will go with LVM. It has some nice other properties as well. I assume that making a few large virtual disks (mostly segregated by disk type and enclosure location) and using LVM to slice and dice is the way to go?
Thx, Ken --------------- Jefferson Cowart wrote: > The recommendations I've seen are to avoid using /dev/sdx for exactly this > reason. Instead you can use either file system labels or otherwise persistent > names generated by udev based on parameters that won't change. Another (better?) solution is to use LVM logical volumes for your filesystems - the kernel scans all relevant storage at startup and identifies LVM PVs and reads their metadata from them, so even if the underlying device names/locations change, everything still "just works." (/boot, which cannot be LVM, is another issue, but GRUB's access to that is typically mediated by the BIOS, which is at least a little less likely to renumber things the way the Linux kernel does...) @alex -- mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
