[linux-lvm] disk naming

[Patrick Caulfield]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:05:00AM -0600, Matt Schillinger wrote:
> If i'm NOT using devfs, can i reliably (assuming that disks are on the
> same scsi id/lun/host channel) use lvm?
> 
> Scenario:
> 
> LV is created with device /dev/sdd, which is on host channel 2
> 
> Machine is shutdown, and a new raid is connected on host channel 1, with
> one disk.
> 
> Machine is restarted, and the 1 disk on the host channel 1 raid takes
> /dev/sdd. The original disk is now /dev/sde.
> 
> Will LVM find the correct disk?
> 

Yes, that'll work fine. Getting LVM to work with those scsidev names 
you mentioned in the first email will be quite a lot harder 
(unless you use LVM2).

patrick