I'm new enough to ask. What? Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Frazier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:47 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Safety Reminder: If you are planning disk upgrades, make sure you switch your Linux guests to by-path IDs in /etc/fstab BEFORE you switch Two questions that anyone who is new enough to need your reminder will ask are: What default do you suggest? When changing it, how should it be changed? The old timers here will know the answers. David Boyes wrote: > A safety reminder: If you're planning to replace disk subsystems, make > sure your Linux guests (particularly any SLES 10 or above) guests do NOT > use by-ID paths in /etc/fstab. Fix this BEFORE the new disk goes in, > both RH and SuSE (Debian, too), or your guests will not be able to find > their filesystems (and thus won't boot or run). > > > > This really should be in IBM and other DASD vendors planning information > for new installs, and I'd demand a fix from your Linux vendors. By-ID is > a stupid default for this architecture (for any architecture, I'd > argue...) and needs a fix ASAP. > > > > IBM, EMC, Hitachi: how do we get this added to your planning guides? RH, > Novell, how about it? > > > > -- db > > > -- Stephen Frazier Information Technology Unit Oklahoma Department of Corrections 3400 Martin Luther King Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298 Tel.: (405) 425-2549 Fax: (405) 425-2554 Pager: (405) 690-1828 email: stevef%doc.state.ok.us
