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SubjectRe: [-v3 PATCH 0/3] Persistent device name using alias
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On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:54:29 +0900, Nao Nishijima said:

> A kernel device names (e.g. sda) is not useful information because it
> doesn't always point the same disk at each boot-up time.

If this is important to you, can't you use a udev rule, similar to what most
distros already stick in 70-persistent-net.rules and 70-persistent-cd.rules?

(Yes, this *does* involve finding a UUID or label or something on the disk
that you can identify as "same entity as last time".

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