On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 10:39 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Jeremy Katz (katzj@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > 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. > > > > Other opinions? > > It makes it simpler code wise, and more predictable (you actually get > somethign unique). However, attempting to type in root=UUID= on the > commandline sounds painful. Typing root=LABEL= is pretty painful too given that you won't necessarily know whether it's /, /1, Fedora9-Root (yes, this has been suggested), ... If you're having to manually type in the root device, we've probably already lost :-/ Jeremy _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
