On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:25:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mar 18, 9:10 pm, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
when you replace a drive, could you lable the filesystem so that you can have in /etc/fstab a LABEL=drive01 so that all drives that you want mounted on /backup/drive01 would have the same label? > > 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). The way devfs worked in Sarge. I do miss that in Etch with udev. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
