RE: sd, sd, who's got the sd

["Styma, Robert E \(Robert\)" <stymar alcatel-lucent com>]

> > Is there a method to the madness?
> 
> This is why we use disk labels or UUIDs instead of device names. With 
> changes like this in the kernel and especially with machines with 
> removable drives, or machines using fancy multipath storage, 
> it's nearly 
> impossible to reliably predict exactly what order the drives will be 
> found in.
> 
> So the solution is: just give the partitions names instead. Then it 
> doesn't matter if your FC6 root drive is sda1 or sdb1 or hdc1, it's 
> always LABEL=fc6_root. If you say "mount LABEL=fc6_root /fc6" 
> it will Do 
> The Right Thing.
> 
> So, in short, it doesn't matter how the two FC7 systems will 
> detect the 
> new drive, so long as you give it a useful label.
> 

I have been trying to get a handle on how this works to see if
I can break it.  Replacing the IDE drivers with something 
radically different is playing with fire.  I have a SCSI card
laying around somewhere I may put in the test machine just to
see what that does.  (This is the fedora-test-list right?)

Bob Styma
Phoenix, AZ