On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 06:48:48PM -0400, Derek J. Balling wrote: > > On Jul 15, 2008, at 12:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Derek J. Balling > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I wonder if those symlinks update automagically, such that the > >> "reordering" aspect of FC/iSCSI(/USB?) never comes into play.... > > > > Yes. That's the whole gain. I highly recommend anyone that has never > > read about UDEV to at least give it a perusal. It can make your life a > > heck of a lot easier.. > > Actually, it doesn't appear to work properly with truly removable/re- > orderable media
Can you give an example?
> If I mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/XXXXXX, what is ACTUALLY mounted is,
> say, /dev/sdc1
>
> And if /dev/sdc1 later points to a different physical device, heh,
> well, I've got a new physical device showing up in the filesystem.
>
> It might be "stable across reboots", but it's not stable across device-
> renumbers.
The links in dev are created by coldplug (or some equiv) during boot,
and hotplug during run time. The uuids are coming out of device mapper
from what I can see.
-Sean
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