In fact, this workaround doesn't seem to work for me in grizzly. I attached 4 volumes and only two of them got virtio serial numbers:
[root@mongodbreplicasetmembertest3 ~]# ls -l /dev/vd* brw-rw----. 1 root disk 252, 0 Sep 26 16:00 /dev/vda brw-rw----. 1 root disk 252, 1 Sep 26 16:00 /dev/vda1 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 252, 2 Sep 26 16:00 /dev/vda2 brw-rw----. 1 root disk 252, 16 Sep 26 16:00 /dev/vdb brw-rw----. 1 root disk 252, 32 Sep 26 16:00 /dev/vdc brw-rw----. 1 root disk 252, 48 Sep 26 16:00 /dev/vdd brw-rw----. 1 root disk 252, 64 Sep 26 16:00 /dev/vde [root@mongodbreplicasetmembertest3 ~]# ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/virtio-* lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Sep 26 16:00 /dev/disk/by-id/virtio-cef82203-43de-4915-8 -> ../../vdb lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Sep 26 16:00 /dev/disk/by-id/virtio-def5e6dd-c536-4667-9 -> ../../vdc
In fact, this workaround doesn't seem to work for me in grizzly. I attached 4 volumes and only two of them got virtio serial numbers:
[root@mongodbre plicasetmembert est3 ~]# ls -l /dev/vd* plicasetmembert est3 ~]# ls -l /dev/disk/ by-id/virtio- * by-id/virtio- cef82203- 43de-4915- 8 -> ../../vdb by-id/virtio- def5e6dd- c536-4667- 9 -> ../../vdc
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 252, 0 Sep 26 16:00 /dev/vda
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 252, 1 Sep 26 16:00 /dev/vda1
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 252, 2 Sep 26 16:00 /dev/vda2
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 252, 16 Sep 26 16:00 /dev/vdb
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 252, 32 Sep 26 16:00 /dev/vdc
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 252, 48 Sep 26 16:00 /dev/vdd
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 252, 64 Sep 26 16:00 /dev/vde
[root@mongodbre
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Sep 26 16:00 /dev/disk/
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Sep 26 16:00 /dev/disk/