On Mar 18, 9:10 pm, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think he means he wants to map a device node to a device _location_ > not a specific device, which happens by default with ide (ie, hda being > ide primary master). > > using fstab with uuid's would mean that the same physical disk always > mounts to the same place, which is of no use if he swaps a new disk with > the same data as the old one (so would want to mount it in the same place) > > Please tell me if this is not what you meant.
Perhaps I wasn't clear, I'll try to restate the problem. :) We have thirteen drive bays with removable SATA disks in a box used for backups. The bays are marked 1 through 13, and mount to /backup/ drive01 .. drive13. Sometimes we replace some of the disks with new ones (e.g. to store the old ones for long-term off-line backups), and we want the replaced disk accessible at the same mount point as the old disk. The newly inserted disks will have a different UUID, and, should we use UUIDs, the operation will require reconfiguring the host to mount the new drives, which is a hassle. In essence, we would like to be able to address partitions like it's done in a BSD-derived Unix. For example, in Solaris /dev/dsk/c1t4d5s7 means "controller 1 target 4 disk 5 slice 7". Doesn't have to be the same syntax, of course, but we'd like to be able to reliably address a disk, connected to specific hardware address (a port of a SATA card). Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
