> Of course we don't have to approach that, the answer is simple: Don't > rely on device-names and/or physical position of the hardware. Here are > two reason: a) users don't understand it; and b) sysadmins don't need to > understand it. That's why e.g. hal/fstab-sync put /media/<fslabel> > in /etc/fstab so you can just label your disks and expect them to be > mounted at the appropriate mount point. > > I'd wish people would file bugs against software, especially desktop > software, that forces people to rely on device names. We need to move > away from that. 1. sw-raid arrays - how do you not rely on device names when trying to fail-out a drive? 2. adding a new disk to a system. The new disk has been a boot disk for another older system. Suddenly you have two partitions labeled / and /var. How do you get out of that w/o booting up and making fstab mount via device name? -sv
