Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jun 1999 09:13:39 +0200 (MET DST) | From | (Guest section DW) | Subject | Re: Devfs, was Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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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.
Andries
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