sata and changing devices
Alan Cox
alan at redhat.com
Tue May 27 08:22:04 UTC 2008
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 07:56:27PM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
> specific piece of hardware. But the tool output now is still using this
> type of device identification (sda) which in the future is actually
Nor did PATA except for the four "legacy" devices (hda-hdd) which have no
meaning for modern devices
> generate a backup state picture for physical SATA devices that
> encompasses mbr, partition tables, raid configuraton, lvm configuration,
> and filesystem mounting using mdadm, {pv|lv|vg}display, {f|sf}disk or
> parted. This was all very straightforward with PATA devices but is
> anything but with these SATA devices.
SATA is hotplug, beyond "which is the boot volume" there isn't anything which
ties a drive to a given port. LVM/MD and friends all understand uuid/label for
good reason.
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