On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Robert LeBlanc wrote: > Debian Lenny only picked up the changer in /dev/tape/by-id, but > /dev/tape/by-path had both tape drives, but the names are horribly long: > pci-0000:01:04.0-fc-0x500110a00058bd40:0x0000000000000000-nst-nst > pci-0000:01:04.0-fc-0x500110a00058bd40:0x0000000000000000-st > pci-0000:01:04.0-fc-0x500110a00058c2f0:0x0000000000000000-nst-nst > pci-0000:01:04.0-fc-0x500110a00058c2f0:0x0000000000000000-st
by-path will change every time there's a fabric change, that's why by-id is so important. > The udev rule for the friendly name seems worth the effort for me > anyways. The device name only needs to be set once :) AB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
