RE: SCSI device order changed

From: Gary Funck
Date: Sun Jul 16 2006 - 14:02:50 EST


Yuri van Oers wrote:
> I found a related post here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/3/192
> which suggests this situation arose around 2.6.15. It also says ordering
> can't be guaranteed. If that's the final verdict, I'll simply swap the
> cards on the PCI bus and be done with it.
>

We saw this change in behavior also. Labeling the root volume, and
mounting via label may help to keep things more portable, however,
I recall that labels and the device manager managed devices interacted
in some way that made mounting / via a label more difficult, however.
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