On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Robert LeBlanc wrote:

> Debian Lenny only picked up the changer in /dev/tape/by-id, but
> /dev/tape/by-path had both tape drives, but the names are horribly long:
> pci-0000:01:04.0-fc-0x500110a00058bd40:0x0000000000000000-nst-nst
> pci-0000:01:04.0-fc-0x500110a00058bd40:0x0000000000000000-st
> pci-0000:01:04.0-fc-0x500110a00058c2f0:0x0000000000000000-nst-nst
> pci-0000:01:04.0-fc-0x500110a00058c2f0:0x0000000000000000-st

by-path will change every time there's a fabric change, that's why by-id
is so important.

> The udev rule for the friendly name seems worth the effort for me
> anyways.

The device name only needs to be set once :)

AB


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