Re: udev

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:33:09AM -0400, Mike wrote:
> The main problem I was having is that when the system starts and all the 
> drives are there udev used my rules file and everything works. The 
> moment the system starts and say sdc is missing, it will read the file 
> and apply the rules for sda and sdb, but not apply it to any other the 
> drives from that point on. The default system takes over, so a drive 
> that I need to be sdd ends up being sdc.
> 
> I had though about that, but wouldn't you have to regenerate the file 
> each time if there was a drive change? I figured the SCSI enumeration 
> would work the best, in the event of a fail the new drive can be plugged 
> in to the same particular channel and in be labeled correctly. I'll take 
> a look further in to the using the scsi_id

Yes, use scsi_id, or a sysfs attribute.  Not the scsi enumerated number,
that will change all the time.

good luck,

greg k-h


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