On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Martin Polednik <mpolednik(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
On 16/03/17 08:23 +0100, gflwqs gflwqs wrote:
> Hi list!
> When we upgraded our ovirt environment to 4.1 we get the virtio-scsi
> interface as default for virtual disks.
> We have seen a difference in drive order from when we used the virtio
> interface.
>
> Before when we added disks the order of the drives were set by which order
> the disks was created.
> So if i had 1 disk as os disk it became vda and added a 50 GB disk that
> disk became vdb and then added another 8GB disk that became vdc.
>
> But now when i add two additional disks with the virtio-scsi interface
> like
> the above when i reboot the vm the 50GB disk become sdc and the 8GB disk
> become sdb even that i created the 50GB disk first?
> How is the order decided in the virtio-scsi interface?
> What can i do to ensure that the disks come in the order that i create
> them?
>
> Regards
> Christian
>
Could you post the XML (virsh -r list, note the domain
number and virsh -r dumpxml $domainnumber) before and after adding the
disks? Need to see whether there are also any iothreads or anything
else.
It doesn't matter - the order of disk discovery on the SCSI bus (by udev?)
is quite random.
You must use /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-...
Y.
Thanks,
mpolednik
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