Quoting Russell Coker ([email protected]):

> You haven't been using GRUB nearly that long.

Quite right.  And I've been seriously tempted to give that piece of junk
the heave-ho and go back to lilo.  (On EFI, there's elilo.)  

It wasn't broken, and I am annoyed by distros fixing what wasn't broken.  
(Your mileage may differ.)

That being said, I've been an utterly non-enthusiastic user of GRUB
since whenever it was that Debian introduced it into d-i or
boot-floppies (whichever it was) on the unstable branch.

And that's a lot of years, too.  Which matter aside, if GRUB somehow
dissuades games of device-name Frogger, point for GRUB and your point is
unclear.  If not, your point is still unclear. 

> Also the development of libata and SATA disks are much more recent.

Yeah, you may recall I wrote the first real documentation about Linux on
SATA, so you could say I did notice it at the time.

> Yes things can work with direct names for the simpler cases.

Apparently, all of the reasonable cases are what you call 'simpler'.

> Probably the best case for UUIDs is when using BTRFS as you have RAID, volume 
> management, and the filesystem all combined.

Good point.

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