On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 11:35 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 06:20:12PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > This is a somewhat crazy thought, but rather than continuing down the > > path of "what's the best label to use for a filesystem", what if we > > instead just stopped labeling them altogether? We're going to use UUID > > for mounting anyway at which point we have our unique identifier. And > > then we could get rid of a fair bit of really grotty code. > > What's wrong with /dev/vg0/[home|root|swap] (or whatever)? Lack of uniqueness. There's a not insignificant number of requests to actually default to a VG name that takes into account the hostname of the system to avoid problems when moving disks between machines (duplicate VG names make the lvm tools very unhappy; sadly) as well as problems when using raw partitions or LVs to hold a volume group for a virtual machine Jeremy _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
