On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 11:21 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 04:28 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Do you really want your disk to be known as > >> 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 ? > > > > It's more correct than "/dev/sda" which can change based on the order of > > things plugged in, or the order of detection, and it's more unique than > > an arbitrary label. > > But it's not "user friendly" in that it has no meaning that the user can > associate to the contents This has been my reasoning for leaning towards not making this change now for years. But really trying to guess which rootfs /1 corresponds to isn't that user friendly either. And the case of plugging in a disk on another box and then having to deal with duplicate labels is .. ugh. > It /could/ be argued that the user should never have to worry about the > names of his disk partitions, but that is a bad assumption about the > user's level of sophistication and experience. > > To me, this another step backwards. Another? What was the first? :) Jeremy _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
