Hi Martin, On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 07:27:39AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Proposal > -------- > I propose to retire [mac], i. e. drop > /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules and enable > [ifnames] by default on all platforms (client, server, touch, snappy), > and stop installing biosdevname on server. > > This will provide the new stable interface names for all new > installations, stop the different handling of server/client, work with > system-image, and stops the woes cloud providers have with Ubuntu's > [mac]. > > For upgrades: As we don't know what refers to existing stable network > names, we can't ever safely remove a generated > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules or uninstall biosdevname. So > when we do the above, names on existing installations will *not* > change (as 70-persistent-net.rules trumps [biosdevname] trumps [ifnames]).
Will this cause a previously biosdevname generated name to change on reinstall, or will ifnames end up with the same biosdevname-provided name on systems that are being supplied biosdevname data? I think I didn't really understand what ifnames would select in terms of servers with biosdevname available. Thanks, Robie
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