Alan Cox wrote:
That still doesn't explain why the order of mounting (and of scsi
discovering?) is shuffled
I'm sure it was explained somewhere in this thread. The device names
are named in the order that the BIOS discovers them. If it checks the
USB ports first, they get the names first.
The kernel order depends on the load order of drivers not the BIOS order.
The BIOS order information is there via the EDD interface and could in
theory be used to make links but afaik nobody uses it.
BIOS order is also far weaker than labels as it may change when a drive
fails or you swap a card.
What do you call the drive partition when you are creating the label?
The installer normally labels volumes ROOT USR HOME etc, you can change
this and my partitions often get relabelled with suitably silly names.
I'm starting to build a box that will have an assortment of scsi and
sata disks, most, but not all paired in md raid1 devices and expect to
have a few hotplug sata and external USB and firewire drives that will
be connected periodically. Do you have any hints on how to write a
script that will copy things to the recently-mounted drive(s) and how to
avoid boot problems if any of them happen to be connected during a
reboot? Will the md devices always find/pair themselves regardless of
the underlying partition device names?
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Les Mikesell
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