Re: [RFC] Persistent naming of scsi devices

James Bottomley
2002-04-08T18:28:45Z

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