Re: [dm-devel] Re: fibre channel/multipath questions

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan infradead org>]

> the last rule poses the problem. depending on how many multipath devices i 
> have, i constantly have to change lilo.conf for every machine.
> 
> in bsd, there is a way to set your drives to a fixed name, is there something 
> alike in linux? or a sollution to this problem? (i'm definately willing to 
> help find one, if there isn't... and i guess i'm not the only one with this 
> problem?)

there is mount-by-label (filesystem label that is) that at least Fedora
and RHEL distros use, and I assume many other distros support too even
if they don't use it by default.