I'm nominally a Solaris/NetBackup person, so I'm a bit baffled by Fedora's (apparent) intrinsic desire to copy the Windows dynamic reconfiguration of tape devices.
I'm very much used to creating my st devices and forgetting about them except for reconfiguration reboots.
Is there a simple easy way to statically set st0 and st1 etc. to a particular tape drive? I have an internal dat drive that I want to rely on being in one particular location - it will be setup to auto archive data my family dumps in their smb shares. My external DLT drive will only be enabled when I'm doing a full system backup. Since the kernel seems to be configured to rebuild the /dev/st* and corresponding nrst devices this is currently not possible.
I've disabled kudzu with chkconfig (just have to remember to enable it next time I add hardware) but that doesn't seem to be the correct way. I've looked at /etc/rc.sysinit but didn't get much of a clue there save a hint in the SCSI area with modprobe, but that didn't go far.
I really want my DDS2 drive to remain at st0 and my DLT to be st1 across every single reboot, whether it's powered on or not.
Pointers folks?
You can probably achieve this by creating a pair of local udev rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-custom.rules that identify your specific devices and create the device nodes before the "standard" Fedora rules get a chance to do it.
See: http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php for details on how to write these rules.
Paul.
