Thus spake Bill Studenmund ("BS> ") sometime Today...

BS> While something like mtree would cover the ownership and permissions, it
BS> won't handle renaming. The only way to do that is using locators. Once we
BS> do that, we might as well do it for everything. :-) Also, using locators
BS> would help with machines connected to SANs. For Fibre Channel, we can use
BS> WWNs, and for iSCSI we can use target names.

...could we still hardwire names?  I kind of like knowing where my devices
actually physically live.

"As an option, of course!"

				--*greywolf;
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