Eric Sandeen wrote:
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.
If that works, I'd be fairly happy, but I was there this morning and I
am not aware that it actually works.
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Cheers
John
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