[CentOS] Order of sata/sas raid cards

Thu Aug 23 12:01:01 UTC 2012
Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst at barrett.com.au>

Hi Adrian

yes this will do.
Because I do not know (yet) the UUID of the new partitions (drives), 
if I specify the UUID for the known drives for the partitions
the kernel will assign the new drives to higher sdx?
Is this correct?

thanks
Jobst



On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:49:38PM +0300, Adrian Sevcenco (Adrian.Sevcenco at cern.ch) wrote:
> On 08/23/12 12:13, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
> > Is there a way to tell the kernel in which order to load the drives
> > and assign the drive order in a way that the new drives are assigned
> > SDC and SDD and the old drives get SDA and SDB?
> use UUID= in fstab (lsblk -o NAME,KNAME,UUID) and you will get rid of
> all this headaches (if you have software raid the assembling is done
> internally based on UUID so you don't have to worry about mdraid)
> 
> HTH,
> Adrian
> 


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