[systemd-devel] 70-persistent-net.rules

[Reindl Harald]

Am 11.04.2013 13:46, schrieb Colin Guthrie:
> 'Twas brillig, and Harald Hoyer at 11/04/13 12:27 did gyre and gimble:
>> Only
>> $ rpm -qf /lib/udev/rename_device
>> initscripts-9.45-2.fc19.x86_64
>>
>> kicks in and renames interfaces according to the ifcfg-* files, if HWADDR is
>> set, and if there are no conflicts.
> 
> It's the "if there are no conflicts" bit that's hard to address tho'
> right? I mean, this is what the persistent rules stuff was meant to fix
> (but didn't due to the afore mentioned races etc.). If I have two NICs
> (quite common) and the kernel happens to initialise them the "wrong" way
> round, this logic breaks down does it not? (please correct me if I'm wrong).
> 
> Should we then consider trying to push a new default name scheme into
> the kernel side such that they come up as "eth-ng0" etc. by default
> allowing any userspace stuff to rename them to "eth1" or whatever
> without so much likelihood of such conflicts.
> 
> That shouldn't affect the udev persistent name scheme, and should allow
> people who want to keep the traditional ethX names to carry on with out
> *that* much risk of the rename failing.

THAT SOUNDS GREAT!

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