Hi,
 
I have the following problem when the servers accessing OCFS2 reboot: as the 
Linux device names are non persistent, at reboot they usually change, and then 
OCFS2 can't mount the device because it is expecting a different device name as 
stated in the fstab file. (it is specified in the format /dev/sdx as the 
instructions of the OCFS2 installation manual say) 
If I change the device name to the "new" name, it works fine. But this is not 
an acceptable solution, as each node should be able to start in a fully 
automatic way. (without human intervention)
 
I thought that the purpose of the disk LABEL that I added when formatting the 
partition with OCFS2 was exactly this. (Am I right?)
I changed the fstab to use the LABEL option, and also try to mount it from the 
command line using the LABEL option but it didn't work. Is there any bug or 
known issue on this topic. I guess that if I glue the device name with udev it 
will work, but I really would expect OCF2 to solve this problem (because it is 
not a new one, and most of the file systems I know can handle it)
 
I would appreciate any help on this topic.
 
 
Thanks a lot
Ricardo
 
I work with: 
 
RHEL 4
Local SCSI devices
External devices locates in an EVA8000 SAN, accessed through a fibre channel 
bus. The OCFS2 file system is on one of these.
 

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