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Germano
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Disks order at startup

Hi,

I've had something really weird happen to me for the first time, one of my Linux (RHEL 4) VM's came up with their drives in a different order. We had to shutdown this VM, as well as others, to perform some maintenance on the SAN, but when we turned it ON, the last three disks came up in a different order.

What was drive 7 came up as drive 6

What was drive 6 came up as drive 5

Whar was drive 5 came up as drive 7

This only happened to this VM and none of the other Linux VMs which is weird, but unfortunaly this as the only production Linux VM, other development/test Linux VMs came up just fine.

Has anyone ever seen this issue?

Thanks

Germano

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AndreTheGiant
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Very strange.

The disks are vmdk or RDM?

PS: have you consider to use LABEL or UUID option in /etc/fstab mount configuration to avoid this problem?

Andre

Andrew | http://about.me/amauro | http://vinfrastructure.it/ | @Andrea_Mauro

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AndreTheGiant
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Very strange.

The disks are vmdk or RDM?

PS: have you consider to use LABEL or UUID option in /etc/fstab mount configuration to avoid this problem?

Andre

Andrew | http://about.me/amauro | http://vinfrastructure.it/ | @Andrea_Mauro
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