Comment 39 for bug 1429327

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote : Re: Boot from an unique, stable, multipath-dependent symlink

another comment, the path that i was pursuing, and almost have in place was to have /etc/multipath/bindings with consitent names and then boot with root=/dev/mappings/mpathX[-partY].

Mauricio's suggestion of boting with root=multipath-UUID is nicer in the event of a disk being replaced. As my solution would result in failure to boot if you replaced the physical disk with another with identical data (ie, you noticed it was going bad).

So, i do like the idea of multipath-<uuid> except for the guaranteed boot failure if you install that package and do not have multipath.