Messages in this thread | | | From | Martin Steigerwald <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ide: update Kconfig text to mark as deprecated | Date | Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:18:39 +0100 |
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Am Freitag 30 Oktober 2009 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Am Freitag 30 Oktober 2009 schrieb David Miller: > > And yes I absolutely do consider it too onerous to change my fstab > > because I have to (or want to be able to) go back to older kernels > > which will only have the IDE stack enabled. I refuse to have to > > monkey around with my fstab every time I want to go back and forth. > > You don't need to when you used UUID or LABEL - I prefer the later > cause its more readable. Actually I never quite understood while one > would want to use dynamic things like /dev/hdd or /dev/sdb in the > first place. Thats for me not that much better than C: or D:. Connect > your harddisks differently and you are screwed.
One thing to add: If you use a InitRD, you can use UUID or LABEL in GRUB 1 as well. I believe GRUB 2 at leasts supports UUID out of the box, but better check this, before relying on my word.
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