sata and changing devices
Jesse Keating
jkeating at redhat.com
Fri May 23 18:30:36 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 13:41 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
> We have a new machine which has SATA. This is the first machine we have
> had with SATA. SATA and these changing device locations are giving me a
> headache. None of our disk device tools work with SATA. For instance
> we have a tool that will save all the MBR's and partition tables off to
> files such as 'hda.mbr' and 'hda.part'. With SATA this does not work
> because what was 'sda' during this boot may be 'sdc' on the next boot.
> So I need to find out if there is some best practice guide for how to
> rewrite our tools so that they can support SATA. We use LVM over RAID
> on all our drives and all our RAID and LVM tools appear to still work.
> It is only when dealing with the low-level disk devices themselves that
> we have problems. Can someone give me some suggestions as to how to
> manage things when using SATA?
>
> Regards,
> Gerry
>
Use disk UUIDs instead of device names.
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Jesse Keating
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