[Linux-cluster] Maybe OT: GFS labels for iSCSI disks

James Parsons jparsons at redhat.com
Fri Jan 12 18:20:38 UTC 2007


C. L. Martinez wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using a RHEL 4 U4 with iscsitarget to serve local disks to two 
> RHEL 4U4 servers with RHCS and GFS, using RHEL initiator.
>
> When I add new raw disks to iscsitarget and restart the *iscsid* 
> service on RHEL clients with GFS, sometimes the device naming 
> (/dev/sdX) changes and it's a mess
> to find the older volumes with the new device name.
>
> Does anybody know how to use to archieve persistent device naming for 
> the *iSCSI* volumes on *RHEL4*? According to this: 
> http://people.redhat.com/mchristi/iscsi/RHEL4/doc/readme 
> <http://people.redhat.com/mchristi/iscsi/RHEL4/doc/readme>, I need to 
> use Labels , but how can I assign labels on a GFS filesystem??
>
> I think I need to use an *udev* rule for that, but I'm new to this, 
> any help or sample rule would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
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Support for setting this up in the UI is planned for the next update of 
Conga...sorry that doesn't help you now, though.

-J




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