[collectd] [PATCH] Persistent names for linux's device mapper disks.

[XANi]

Hi

> A more generic solution will be to call from the disk plugin an external
> script (call it a "PersistentNameProvider") that given the kernel name
> will provide the persistent name to use. But I think that this will
> create a great overhead with system with a lot of disks...
> 

In most systems names of disks don't change that often ;) so it could be
cached. In case of DM devices there is also UUID
in /sys/block/dm-X/dm/uuid so it could check if UUID changed and if it
changed rerun script.



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