Autor: Alessandro Selli Data: A: dng Assumpte: Re: [DNG] Proposed change in behaviour for ascii: eudev
net.ifnameslogic reversing proposal
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 at 10:32:43 +0200
Narcis Garcia <informatica@???> wrote:
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> This logic does not guarantee 100% predictable naming (think about
> removable NICs), but gives enough confort to a sysadmin deals any with
> situation.
If it's not 100% predictable and configurable by the sysadmin then it does
*not* provide "enough confort", as in an Enterprise environment this means
100% certainty that the system comes up with each networking card having
a definite, assigned name and that everything that depends on networking is
always going to work fine short of a hardware failure.
Randomness is very unwelcome in critical systems and in data centers, where
even a tiny percentage of random malfunction has to be multiplied by the
numer of racks and devices that are present to be deemed acceptable.