Hello! I'm having problems with udev /dev/tape/by-id/ symlinks.. it seems symlinks to tape drives are sometimes (randomly) missing after reboot. Server in question has IBM TS3200 tape library connect
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0076.html "These updated packages fix the following bugs: * race conditions in "scsi_id", which may have resulted in devices not being created as per udev rules
The default udev rules installed by Centos 5.2 use scsi_id, so this bug could be causing your problem. Also, since the symlinks are sometimes being created and sometimes not, a race condition would b