On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Michael Marineau <michael.marin...@coreos.com> wrote: > Working on bumping to 215 over here in CoreOS land, but I've got a > question regarding the removal of persistent device names for virtio > devices since changing the network device names creates a difficult > upgrade path from 212. The commit was: > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=bf81e792f3c0aed54edf004c1c95cc6f6d81d0ee > "udev: persistent naming - we cannot use virtio numbers as they are not > stable" > > The commit doesn't say what the issue was, in what situations are the > virtio numbers not stable?
They suffer from the same problem as the ethX enumeration. In many cases they appear to be stable (as drivers typically get loaded in the same order etc), but there is nothing ensuring it, so we can't rely on that. Cheers, Tom _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
