[CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

[Brunner, Brian T.]

centos-bounces at centos.org wrote:
> Nope sir.  Assume never the same device twice and no control
> over those devices, so UUID is out of the question.

UUID is out of the question where I have 3 drives (main and two backup)
with "wear leveling" wherein ANY of the drives, put in /dev/sda's
position, is the boot drive, the identical backup on /dev/sdb will get
backed-up-to on a daily basis, and on a weekly basis the drive in
/dev/sdb moves to /dev/sda's connector (becoming the boot drive),
'/dev/sda' goes off-site, and the third moves to /dev/sdb's position
(and gets backed-up-onto promptly.

LABEL also fails here.

> Yes, that's why you assign a LABEL to the device :) If the
> same hard drive gets used on the same server, but on random
> ports every time then the LABEL will still stay the same. I
> have a similar setup where I mount about 40-odd USB drives to
> a server on a regular basis. They each have their own mount
> points in /mnt/usb-hdd/xxxxxxxxxx and irrespective of which
> drive I connect to which USB port, or on which order, they
> all get mounted where they're supposed to :)

This is excellent where each drive has distinct content.

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