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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Persistent naming of scsi devices
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 13:28:42 -0500
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mjacob@feral.com said:
> Then let's use WWPN/WWNS and/or drive serial #'s to do UUIDs for
> devices. 

That's what the persistent binding proposal that started all this uses.  
However, these strings are incredibly long at best and (in spite of what the 
SCSI spec says) sometimes include non-printing characters, so you don't 
necessarily want to be passing them on the command line.

James