Obviously the by-id/by-path debate has been of fairly major concern on this list over the last week or so.
Clearly, also, no distributor is interested in fixing it for the currently-shipping distributions. So I wrote a little tool to run post-install, which does nothing but identify whether you have by-id disk paths in your fstab or zipl.conf. If you do, it rewrites them to be by-path disk paths. If you use the - d option, it just prints the changed files to the screen. Normal operation is to leave it in /etc/whatever-by-path. If you're feeling brave, you can run it with -r and actually *replace* the files (this will also invoke zipl if it needs to), and if you're feeling *suicidal* you can run it with -c and -r together, and clean up all the old files. Please don't do this, and if you do it, don't tell me about it. Anyway: the current tool only exists for SLES10/s390x; it should be easily adapted to any other distro's s390 or s390x release, and it makes no sense whatsoever for non-s390(x) distros. There's an RPM package, the Perl script itself, and the spec file used to generate the RPM package from the Perl script. Don't use this as a model for either how to write Perl or spec files. My Perl is dumb and ugly, and my spec files are created my randomly flailing at the keyboard until it works. However, the current package works for me. That said: NO WARRANTY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. Even if it's Friday and you've had plenty of cough syrup, don't run this in replace mode without trying it a couple times and making sure you like the output you get, and don't run it with -c -r, period. And if you replace zipl.conf by hand, don't forget to actually *run* zipl before you reboot. http://download.sinenomine.net/sane-dasd-update Enjoy! Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
