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Auteur: Narcis Garcia
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Proposed change in behaviour for ascii: eudev net.ifnames logic reversing proposal
El 22/08/17 a les 02:48, Alessandro Selli ha escrit:
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 at 10:32:43 +0200
> Narcis Garcia <informatica@???> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> 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.
>
>
> Alessandro


Please, differenciate between predictable name and definitive name.
persistent-net.rules allows 100% definitive names.