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[Xen-devel] vscsi and /dev/tape/by-path

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Subject: [Xen-devel] vscsi and /dev/tape/by-path
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:41:29 +1100
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Thread-topic: vscsi and /dev/tape/by-path
I use vscsi fairly extensively (under Windows mainly for testing
baremetal restores from tape), and have a problem that's been bugging me
for ages. If I use "/dev/st4" it works fine, but obviously that's
hopeless unreliable as it relies on device enumeration order at boot. I
want to use something like "
/dev/tape/by-path/pci-0000:01:08.0-scsi-0:0:3:0-st" so that I am
guaranteed of getting the right drive, but vscsi doesn't appear to
support it.

Digging into it, I see function vscsi_get_hctl_and_devname_by that
attempts to figure out the sg device that corresponds to whatever I
specified in the config file. If I could modify that function to simply
follow the symlinks until I get to a real device that would probably be
sufficient, but is that the right way to do it?

Thanks

James

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