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Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: udev rule for persistent removable device naming
2012-04-03 18:10:15
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote on 04/03/2012
05:56:54 PM:
> Personally, I'd never trust a script to automatically format a disk
> just because it is inserted in a certain carrier.
Thank you for that. That may be a perfectly
logical option: but it's not what I've chosen. (This is a solution
that has been in production for 6 or more years, and in the direct hands
of a couple dozen clients. Number of initializations: *thousands*.
Number of issues: ZERO.)
> Maybe something
> like making a small permanent partition with a label or UUID
would
> let you detect it and figure out the base device if you really have
> to format different/larger partition on it in a script. The
PCI bus
> address shouldn't change unless you move controller cards around,
though.
Once again, until Seagate et. al. sends them that
way from the factory, NOTHING that depends on the *contents* of the drive
is going to help me.
Once the drive is initialized by the script, this
might work great. But because blank drives *WILL* be put into this
system, I don't have much of a choice.
To be clear:
1) Trained monkey takes brand new drive out of the
box
2) Trained monkey installs it into the tray
3) Trained monkey clicks a button and the drive magically
becomes usable.
There's no way the monkey is gonna get (or want, or
even *accept*) console access, so "figure out where that brand new
drive is this time..." is not an option.
I remember the bitter discussions regarding udev and
I wondered what the big deal was. I now know... :(
Tim Massey
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