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[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, May 11, 2017, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
>On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 09:54:47AM -0700, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>> 
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>> I finally figured out the 'dmraid -rE' would get rid of the Intel
>> inserted ids, then normal /etc/fstab LABEL= entries would work as
>> expected.
>> 
>> The upside of this is that I dug into the kickstart documentation
>> to figure out how to create Linux RAID during automated installs.
>
>Have I ever mentioned how much I hate the newer HAL models with udev,
>/dev/mapper, et al?

I'll second that.  I have a CentOS machine here with several external SATA
hard drives that won't boot unattended.  I have to turn off all the
external drives until the BIOS finds the boot drive, then turn them back
on.  Usually I then have to use 'mdadm' to reassemble a RAID array on one
of the external chassis.

>I get the necessity in some scenarios, but I really miss the old-school way
>of doing things, depending which platform I'm working with.

The last real improvement as I see it was the ability to put
labels on file systems then use the LABEL= options in the boot
and fstab entries.  This got around systems that liked to change
the /dev/hd? /dev/sd? entries on some wierd scheme.

Bill
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