u/xrobau

I just upgraded a couple of my fileservers as a test, and `sg3-utils-udev` stopped working! Suddenly all my physical devices were wwn-* or scsi-35* instead of their proper names.

It appears to be a regression. I spotted this Ubuntu bug which seems to be the closest to the cause, and posted a simple fix on it.

Put this in /etc/udev/rules.d/00-scsi-sg3_config.rules

ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="scsi_identify_end"
SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", GOTO="scsi_identify"
GOTO="scsi_identify_end"
LABEL="scsi_identify"
ENV{ID_SCSI_INQUIRY}="0"
ENV{.SCSI_SYMLINK_SRC}="TLVS"
LABEL="scsi_identify_end"

Then udevadm control -R and udevadm trigger and you'll have all your device links back.

You then have to do the mildly annoying fix of

cd /dev/disk/by-id
rm -f wwn* scsi-35* nvme-eui*
zpool export -a
zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-id -a
zpool status

That should re-import all your zpools with the correctly named volumes.

I keep seeing a bunch of posts about people churning to save money. Here's the wholesale ex-tax price that your ISP is paying to connect to the NBN network. This is NOT including IP traffic, APNIC fees, backhaul, staff, support, infrastructure like routers and switches, and space in a Data centre.

https://www.nbnco.com.au/corporate-information/media-centre/media-statements/Wholesale-Price-Changes-from-1-July-

Link to full pricelist: https://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbn/documents/sell/sau/FY27-Tariff-List-v1.0%E2%80%93010526.pdf.coredownload.pdf

Here's the planned price increases, too:

https://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbn/documents/sell/sau/fy26-fy28-pricing-roadmap-v1.2-011125.pdf.coredownload.pdf

If you look at that, you'll see that you're paying, on average, $20 for your ISP to provide everything APART from the connection to your place. Support, Internet, Routing, Redundancy, infrastructure, etc.

Don't churn to an ISP that is losing money. You'll never end up happy, or you'll just be churning again in a few months time.

Yes, I am a NBN provider. No I'm not telling you which one.