John Summerfield wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: >> On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 11:21 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: >>> But it's not "user friendly" in that it has no meaning that the user can >>> associate to the contents. >> Thinking that "/dev/sda1" or "LABEL=/root" has any real meaning is just >> false anyway. It sometimes works, just by happy accident. But if >> you're mixing machines or cloning things it'll go wrong. > > It used to be that /dev/hda1 and /dev/sda1 had defined meanings. IMV > moving away from that was a mistake. I really don't think that was ever true. If it stopped being true it was because more interesting hardware appeared, not so much a coding decision. assuming that there is one fixed drive in the system which will always be found first is a mistake, IMHO. > I recall some discussion years ago regarding larger SCSI devices, about > problems recognising drives. > > The use of UUIDs might help there, but I don't see any merit in > inflicting that solution on the 90%+ users who don't have it. Enterprise > people might have the technical background to adjust to it, but almost > nobody on (eg) fedora-list does. > > We who generally can attach four disks (USB, firewire aside) don't have > a problem knowing which drive is which: it's it is _the_ drive, or we > plugged in another and know which is which, or we can pop the top off > and have a look. no... 4 disks? that's a very limited worldview. :) -Eric _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
