From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe" Subject: Re: md homehost Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:55:29 +0100 Message-ID: <20100225115529.GA1608@darkside.12.kls.lan> References: <20100219091619.GA2964@lazy.lzy> <20100221174007.GB19058@lapse.rw.madduck.net> <20100221201304.GB2570@lazy.lzy> <20100222091632.GE2641@lapse.rw.madduck.net> <20100223133028.279e0174@notabene.brown> <20100223062700.GB19666@lapse.rw.madduck.net> <20100224111006.7024c84e@notabene.brown> <87d3zulpj7.fsf@frosties.localdomain> <20100225093018.12d3e14d@notabene.brown> <87eik94wg1.fsf@frosties.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87eik94wg1.fsf@frosties.localdomain> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Goswin von Brederlow Cc: Neil Brown , martin f krafft , Piergiorgio Sartor , 567468@bugs.debian.org, Daniel Reurich , linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 08:16:14AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Yes you can do something about it: Only start the raid arrays with the > correct homehost. I agree with you that auto-assembling devices with non-matching homehost (and unknown UUID) is probably not the best idea. > If the homehost is only used to decide wether the prefered minor in the > metadata is used for the device name then I feel the feature is entirely > useless. It would only help in "stupid" configurations, i.e. when you > use the device name directly. I don't think this is a "stupid" configuration. md was one of the first subsystems providing stable device names and I think they are widely used - alone for historical reasons. I personally feel way better relying on md device names than on some UUIDs. The former are just far more stable than some UUID of some filesystem which changes every time you re-create it. UUIDs of md devices do change as well if you re-create them, but their name remains. Yes, I'm aware of filesystem labels, but they rise the same problems as md devices without homehost attribute. Mario --=20 There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Niels Bohr --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBS4ZlMRS+e2HeSPbpAQKdpAgAhonicgmFEQip/jNpuuhnaHzc7q+RqcA4 KHB2jAqxxFuxj9PagQCfnHYSceEL9zvbp8Xk1p3T/C6gt5OGxuvnTcKeg5vrvH1W uBO0CD4eOuZtiOGqKx2GSnjCof3Gl6BG1ry1bwyrLsbSwQYfBCMgNQxLj1hX26Iv hWTH+kjJskaTNhyFGuy9pxle56FglxjEn9GmVnHiCmE/Zk+stpGRDI6I2REixWfu Xg/be4uEVKg3PRT5CA9JucrB65WPK/AmEQoynJd3z2jPtLaE7gns2M+Q992UGLT2 OCsVlcPXKxo+VS8iK22w3lYf8Ok+h6w4w2GVtuS/jjy8FL+ax9+uZQ== =htSf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb--