Hi Andrew, On Tue, 2024-12-17 at 22:34:04 +1300, Andrew Ruthven wrote: > My provided script is in: > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2024-January/013143.html
Now that I dug this out of the archive, I remember having seen it before ;) Part of this went into the latest version of FAI, right? I like the "host_disks()" approach, but found that in this particular case it might make more sense to use /dev/disk/by-path because of the inherent sorting - when setting up a RAID one wants to know where to find the parts in case a replacement was necessary ;) > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2024-January/013136.html > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2024-January/013149.html Now that I checked those, I'm wondering whether it would make sense to add some "alias" feature (so one could identify a disk like /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:06:00.0-ata-1.0 either in disk_config (and use that alias like "disk1"), or write some mapping (to additional.var?) to later reference the disk under the new name. No matter how many helpers (like "smallest/biggest disk" etc.) there are, for the next machine one would need yet another one... > Good luck! Getting closer, thanks for your wishes ;) - Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald, Cluster Administrator Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Am Mühlenberg 1 * D-14476 Potsdam-Golm * Germany ~~~ Fon: +49-331-567 7274 Mail: steffen.grunewald(at)aei.mpg.de ~~~
