[CentOS] Mounting LUNs from a SAN array - LUN mappings to devices in /dev/ - are they static?

Sat Oct 4 16:27:14 UTC 2014
Rafał Radecki <radecki.rafal at gmail.com>

The answer is: I was told to do so :) Corpo related stuff ;)

R.

2014-10-04 18:25 GMT+02:00 Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>:

>
> Am 04.10.2014 um 18:22 schrieb Rafał Radecki:
>
>> As I said I need to perform migration of the OS to Centos 5.9 x86_64 and
>> am
>> curious where from does the mapping
>>
>> scsi device 7:0:0:8 <-> /dev/sdj
>>
>> come?
>>
>
> you must not rely on that mapping - never
> it can and will change in many cases at every boot
> that's why UUID's and labels exists
>
> P.S.:
> why do you consider to migrate to a *not* supported and outdated
> CentOS 5.9 - people need to realize that CentOS has only *one*
> supported version, the latest one, 5.11 starting with this week
>
>