Re: [RFC] Persistent naming of scsi devices

Matthew Jacob
2002-04-08T18:18:55Z

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> On Monday 08 April 2002 17:04, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:18:44AM -0600, sullivan wrote:
> > > I would welcome any thoughts, comments, or suggestions.
> >
> > What is the rationale for doing this? I think we should rather get people
> > to actually use the UUID= option to mount..
>
> UUID cannot solve the problem. It identifies filesystems.
> There's a need to identify devices. Not everything
> is a hard drive with a filesystem on it.
>

Then let's use WWPN/WWNS and/or drive serial #'s to do UUIDs for devices.

-amtt