On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:05:31PM -0000, peter green wrote: > > Personally I also feel that all possible solutions effectively make > > /etc/fstab unreadable and unmaintainable. Maybe Debian should > > lead the way > > to make /etc/fstab a generated file (like e.g. modules.conf used to be). > what is so bad about /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:07.1-ide-0:0-part1 ?
That it's not a persistent means of identifying a filesystem. It changes if you move the PCI device, it changes if you change the SCSI/IDE bus address of the drive, it changes if the kernel changes the name of the storage subsystem used to access the device (on kernel upgrades), it breaks down miserably if you use fiberchannel. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
