Rob Berendt wrote:
> I have this nailed down a little bit more.  I ran the following:
> IBMtapeutil -f /dev/IBMtape1 inquiry 80
> and
> IBMtapeutil -f /dev/IBMtape2 inquiry 80
> Then I rebooted this Linux on i5 lpar (hosted underneath an i5/os lpar). I
> ran the IBMtapeutil commands again and the serial numbers flipflopped
> between the two.  Of course, TSM doesn't like it when path names change. I
> am thinking the possible solutions are either to get Linux to stop
> flipflopping the serial numbers or to tell TSM not to give a rip about the
> serial numbers.  Trouble is, I can't figure out either way.
>

Let me first say that yes this is annoying, and should not happen. I guess
there is very little you can do in a virtualised environment as 5i lpar's are.

Now just for the record, how often do you reboot? I tend not to reboot on a
daily or even monthly basis, it's 24*7 production environment....

Now for a 'work-arond'.... you could possibly quite easily build a server
script to do a bunch of 'update drive..... serial=autodetect' things and run
that after every reboot.... My guess being that you don't daily change the
number of drives either....

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