Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:15:34 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Devfs, was Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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Guest section writes: > From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> > > Alan Cox writes: > > > Once you are managing large storage arrays you need a saner naming > > system. Not devfs though, although you can build it over devfs just > > fine - you end up needing mount by uuid/volume name. Anything else > > is just plain horrible to manage updates. > > Ultimately I'd like to see proper volume-based mounting. Not UUIDs (as > Linus said to me privately, 128 bit numbers are ugly), but proper > names. Like "root", "usr", "local", "home", "data", "tmp", "swap" and > so on. > > Maybe you don't know, but we have that today. > > LABEL=Boot /boot ext2 noauto 0 0 > > and > > UUID=3e6be9de-8139-11d1-9106-a43f08d823a6 /boot ext2 noauto 0 0 > > both work in fstab.
For root?
Regards,
Richard....
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