> On 2/16/2011 12:09 PM, compdoc wrote: >>> The problem is, the kernel seemingly randomly switches between >>> /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc for these devices. >> >> I use the UUID in fstab rather than '/dev/sda', etc > > In this case it would be something you give to mdadm to add a device > back to a set. And you'd have to know which one in a rotation was > coming back to which machine, something you wouldn't otherwise have to > track since it is going to overwrite everything with the re-sync anyway. We do track (and physically label) that, because there are drives of different size/manufacturer/geometry on different servers, so that would be ok. However, we're not set up for UUIDs, the fstab just shows /dev/md0, etc. Perhaps this is the answer for us, but I'll have to look into how tricky it would be to migrate roughly 50 production servers. Thanks again!