Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1231 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Arvin Schnell <aschnell@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 12:33:53PM +0100, Lukas Ocilka wrote:
> > Arvin Schnell wrote:
>
> > > But during an update you will likely run into problems anyway:
> > >
> > > Prior to 11.1 the scsi-SATA-* id was preferred and that is not
> > > generated for IDE drives.
> >
> > Which means, ... hmmm ... try to "mount by" LABELs and then upgrade
> > (which can cause conflicts when more disks with partitions using the
> > very same LABEL are used).
> >
> > Is there any method that preserves the same name all the time?
>
> Only mount by LABEL and UUID do but they also have problems (as
> you already mentioned): Both can be present twice if the user
> simply copies a volume with dd.
>
> Too bad we cannot boot from LVM: That would solve the problems
> since LVM doesn't care about the device name but just scans every
> device for its own UUID.

The basic question to me is: Why is that harddisk using hda instead of
sda again?  What went wrong here?  If we can fix that, then Arvin is out
of the loop ;)

Andreas
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