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Subject: Re: md multipath with disk missing ?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Steve Mickeler <steve@neptune.ca>
Cc: Oktay Akbal <oktay.akbal@s-tec.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 14:50, Steve Mickeler wrote:
> 
> Oktay,
> 
> You should really be using devfs in a situation such as yours, where you
> need device name consistency during reboots.
> 

There are a collection of nice tools that will run at boot up (eg from
initrd or from the rootfs mount) and generate a set of sun like /dev/
symlinks to the real scsi device by lun.

You don't need to play with experimental stuff like devfs

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