CentOS 5 :: Persistent Device Names For ISCSI Disks?
Nov 15, 2010
I have a server wich is connected to an iSCSI storage and gets harddisks from this storage. Sometimes I have to add new disks to this server. Everytime I add a disk and make an /etc/init.d/iscsi restart on the server the disks don't have the same device name as before the iscsi restart.
It should be possible to gave the disks persistent names using udev rules. Now I tried to create different rules in "/etc/udev/rules.d/99-static-iscsi-names.rules" e.g.
# /dev/sdc
KERNEL=="sd*", BUS=="scsi", PROGRAM=="/sbin/scsi_id -g -s %p",RESULT=="360a98000503355344c4a576864467877" NAME=="sdc%n"
In "/etc/rc.local" I added "/sbin/start_udev" and in "/etc/scsi_id.config" I added the line "vendor="NETAPP",model="LUN",options=-g"
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May 22, 2009
I have a fairly simple iSCSI setup using two devices, but they have swapped names on different machines. running CentOs 5.3 ia64, and using iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.868-0.18.el5
vm1:
[root@vm1 ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/xvda: 4194 MB, 4194304000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 509 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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Any way to get iSCSI to mount the devices as consistent device names ?
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I then rescanned the devices:
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Aug 17 11:08:21 ubuntutest kernel: [1123295.329972] scsi4 : iSCSI Initiator over TCP/IP
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tcp 0 0 *:iscsi-target *:* LISTEN
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I have a problem defining persistent device naming on a Debian Lenny server.I have:RAID1 controller on the server machine with two SCSI disks.external storage with RAID5. I have / mount on the first partition on the server SCSI disk and /storage mount on the external storage.
I'm experiencing a problem: The system recognizes the system disk (RAID 1), as sda or sdb - randomly.I want: To control the recognition, and tell the system that sda (sda1) will always be the system disk.The motivation: GRUB is configured to work with sda, and when the system disk doesn't, boot process fails, and I end up in the initramfs shell-like interface.
Booting the kernel
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mount:mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
mount:mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
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Booting the kernel
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mount:mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
mount:mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
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2.) please describe and highlight where we mention disk space(5GB)
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cc: /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5/build/include/linux/version.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
cc: keine Eingabedateien
/bin/sh: line 0: [: -le: unary operator expected
/bin/sh: line 0: [: -le: unary operator expected
/bin/sh: line 0: [: -le: unary operator expected
/bin/sh: line 0: [: -le: unary operator expected
/bin/sh: line 0: [: -le: unary operator expected
/bin/sh: line 0: [: -le: unary operator expected
/bin/sh: line 0: [: -le: unary operator expected
/bin/sh: line 0: [: -le: unary operator expected
/bin/sh: line 0: [: -lt: unary operator expected
make -C usr
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/iscsitarget-1.4.19/usr' .....
make: *** [kernel] Fehler 2
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inet Adresse:192.168.2.222 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Maske:255.255.255.0
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