On Thu, March 8, 2007 12:32, Colin Watson said: > UUIDs certainly have their disadvantages (verbosity being the main one), > but they're a hell of a lot better than labels for automatic use like > this. UUIDs are suitable for automatic generation while labels should > only be set by the sysadmin. The fiasco with Red Hat's installer setting > labels which can then end up conflicting with itself if you do multiple > parallel installs should demonstrate this (and some of the people > involved in Anaconda development said to me in person that in hindsight > this was probably a mistake). We've already backed away from automatic > use of labels once (http://bugs.debian.org/310754) so let's not have to > do so again!
I agree. We had similar pains with the default naming of volume groups for lvm installations, people will do multiple installs and the labels *will* collide. (And I find by-id even better than by-uuid since by-uuid still might break due to careless admins doing whole-partition backups using dd.) -- David Härdeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
