On Sat, 28.05.16 21:38, Martin Pitt ([email protected]) wrote: > Chris Friesen [2016-05-27 9:14 -0600]: > > The reason why I'm poking at this is that the old scheme worked "good > > enough" for us for several years. Now of course the new scheme is better, > > but it breaks backwards compatibility. This makes it difficult to > > automatically upgrade an existing system to an OS using the new scheme since > > all the names would change. (And we've got the old interfaces stored in > > databases and such in our management software.) > > FTR, Debian/Ubuntu do not use the new schema on upgrades for existing > interfaces, just for new installs, for precisely this reason. > Specifically, if you already have an existing > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, this will still be present > (and trump ifnames). But we also disable it for VM upgrades where the > previous persistent-net-generator was blacklisted.
I am pretty sure most other distros won't remove the persistend rules file either on upgrade. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
