On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 06:28:30PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: [..snip..] > I have taken up the multipath-tools maintenance very recently. I can't > really comment on what was in Lenny. But I can talk on multipath best > practices. > > In multipath, you can disable "user_friendly_names", which will then > give you access to the unique lun serial id based device names. The > user_friendly_names was a [mis]feature IMO. > So in simple, you can get the same guarantee with multipath also.
Yes, using /dev/mapper/mpath* in d-i is a bandaid. Using persistent names would be a great improvement for squeeze+1. Cheers, -- Guido > > >> /dev/mapper/* is the recommended way of using any Device Mapper > >> solution. Be it linear, crypt, multipath, snapshot or anything else. > > > > I do not agree. All my debian systems (laptops with crypt, servers with > > raid/lvm) boot with /dev/disk/by-uuid root devices. As far as I am > > informed, this is also the debian default (when using grub). > > > by-uuid does not take care of block devices with no file systems. > > -- > Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs > Debian - The Universal Operating System > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
