http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528756
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528756#c8
Jeff Mahoney changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
CC| |jeffm@novell.com
Resolution| |WONTFIX
--- Comment #8 from Jeff Mahoney 2010-02-17 16:52:40 UTC ---
The issue is that device discovery doesn't always happen in the same order.
/dev/sda is claimed by the first driver to set up a disk.
Really, the use of /dev/sda and /dev/sdb in systems with more than one disk is
deprecated. On systems with many, many more disks than that (I've seen systems
with thousands), this doesn't scale at all so there have been better
alternatives in openSUSE for quite some time.
The system itself shouldn't be setting things up using /dev/sdaX anymore
either.
On my workstation (single disk), I use LVM for most things but the one volume
that isn't shows up as /dev/disk/by-id/ata-HTS721010G9SA00_MPCZN7Y0H2SBHL-part3
in my /etc/fstab.
Check out the directory structure under /dev/disk to see what your options are.
You can identify disks by file system label, file system UUID, an ID that is a
concatenation of the bus type, the model number, the serial number, and the
partition, or by path (which makes a lot more sense when you have a huge number
of disks).
This nondeterministic hardware discovery can be annoying at times, but it's a
case of "that not a bug, it's a feature." It means that devices can be
discovered in parallel and your system boots faster.
You'll find that disks aren't the only things affected by this. Other
peripherals can be detected in different order and the result is that the
device nodes get more descriptive names for easier management.
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