Re: More Elegant udev rules

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Greg Stevenson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Volker
>
> Udevadm isn't part of xenserver distribution but udevinfo is. I guess that
> is the important utility to determine what combination of variables will
> most uniquely define the devices I want to work with.
>
> I guess I'm after some combination that uniquely defines hard drives no
> matter if they are SATA, PATA or pure SCSI with no concern for manufacturer
> or model.
>
> I'm picking something like KERNEL=="[h,s]d[a-c]" within the rule would go
> some way to achieving what I'm after given that in this instance the system
> resides on dev/sdd.
> Unfortunately that won't always be the case, and in a big system, many more
> drives would be involved. I guess without the udev rules knowing where the
> system resides there isn't a way of achieving this programmatically.
>
> I would have loved your way of reloading the udev rules below to have worked
> on xenserver but unfortunately I continue to have to reboot each time to
> check the result of my changes.
>
> Thanks for your help.

You said in your first post:

> I found the following udev rules on the citrix forums

Have you been back to the author in the citrix forums?

Please don't top post.

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