[aklug] Re: UUIDs

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Thomison, Lee wrote:

> Be careful using UUIDs. I'm finding that's 'here be dragons' territory. U=
> buntu (which admittedly I'm still learning) likes to use UUIDs, but there a=
> re circumstances that they seem to be dynamic in, such as mounting a raid5 =
> on a mountpoint in a volgroup (in my case). And sometimes they just flat d=
> on't work sometimes, and other times (no apparent change) they do just fine=
> . Phase of the moon, I guess.

Can you elaborate on this? While I don't use UUIDs for mounting purposes,
mdadm uses them by default for RAID members, and I've never had a problem.
Of course, all my filesystems are LVs, so all the RAIDs are just PVs, so
that may be where our configs differ.

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Received on Mon Apr 6 09:09:55 2009