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Hello Christoph, Christoph Anton Mitterer [2017-07-11 3:43 +0200]: > 1) > README.Debian, mentions: > /lib/systemd/network/01-mac-for-usb.link > however this seems to no longer exist. > > 2) > Also it mentions "on VMs remove the file > /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules instead". Indeed, thanks for spotting! Fixed both. > 3) As for the "new" stable interface naming. > [..] > What I do however have is many bunches of nodes from different vendors or > different generations > in which the position is different, and thus I get different names. > I do however want to have the primary network card have the same name accross > the whole cluster That touches the core of the problem: How do you define "primary" in a sensible way that is right for all (or at least most) systems, i. e. what can be the distro default? > (whether it's eth0 or foobar), which brings one back to the MAC based way of > naming, I guess, > especially since these servers all typically have n NICs ... e.g. 2 "good" 10 > GbEs and 4 on-board > 1GbEs. In this scenario it's really not obvious at all (even for me as a human) what the "primary" card is; at least the udev names encode the type, the kernel names are fairly arbitrary. > Now README.Debian already gives example how to do that with an udev rule... > even as "first" way, > but it gives no example on doing it the systemd-way, which is AFAIU with a > .link file, isn't it? udev rules are more flexible, but also more error prone indeed. Beyond that there's really not much difference in performance or effect. > So perhaps for the custom naming, tell people how they can convert their old > 70-persistent-net.rule to a .link file first (before the udev way) andgive an > example like: It's fine to at least point out link files, and refer to the systemd.link(5) manpage (which already has plenty of examples). Christoph Anton Mitterer [2017-07-12 15:12 +0200]: > One addition on this, with 226-2, udev.postinst started to create: > /etc/systemd/network/50-virtio-kernel-names.link > on some systems. > > AFAIU, this is only just there for "easy migration" of systems that > used to have "old" interface naming. > So it might be worth to tell people in README.Debian in the migration > section, that this can/must be deleted, if they want to migrate to the > new schema. Agreed, fixed as well. I committed https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=e54b571bb with the above. Thanks, Martin _______________________________________________ Pkg-systemd-maintainers mailing list Pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-systemd-maintainers
