Jeremy Katz wrote: > 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 :-/ Yup... and by the time you have to type this, since you're probably looking pretty closely at the system at this point, you can probably just give it /dev/sd<whatever> for that bootup. -Eric _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
