2010/4/12 Tomáš Dulík <dulik@unart.cz>:
quoted text
> Stefan /*St0fF*/ Hübner napsal(a):
>>
>> I cannot quite understand your problem.  As every part of the array
>> contains it's own metadata, it doesn't matter to md which /dev/sdX a
>> drive is.  It might matter a bit for boot-time assembly, but actually
>> that's what UUIDs are for.
>>
>
> I know how UUIDs work.
> My problem with device names is not a "critical", it's about "user
> friendliness" of the physical disk management.
> If a disk fails and I receive email "A Fail event had been detected on md
> device /dev/md2. It could be related to component device /dev/sdd3", how
> will I know which disk should be replaced, if the device name is not
> fixed/persistent? I

Record the serial number of the disks and  which bay they are in.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html