2009/6/14 Justin C. Sherrill <[email protected]>: > On Sun, June 14, 2009 12:04 am, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: >> That's a bad idea. The longer you wait, the greater will be the >> install base that is using AHCI hardware with non-AHCI drivers, and >> the more people will have problems with upgrades in the future. > > Thinking this through - people with existing, working machines may or may > not have AHCI mode enabled in the BIOS, so they wouldn't be affected > anyway, and machines without a legacy option wouldn't be unable to > install. > > My experience with newer AHCI machines is limited, but it sounds like > Constantine is right, and as long as it's documented, change now is less > pain than change later. I hate to push a feature that's working this well > off to a future release, too.
Knowing the quality of Matt's work, I'm rather confident with switching to ACHI even in my quite unsure installation (old P4 system with not very reliable no-name PCI SATA card + IDE/UFS system drive). The only thing I'm wondering about is can it be also supported with some kind of tool to map fstab entries from adX to serial number/UUID disk names? I mean some helper script running within, probably, mergemaster procedure. Or, at least some kind of HOWTO to handle this kind of things. /dennis -- Dennis Melentyev
