Rant on LABELs

Lennert Buytenhek buytenh at wantstofly.org
Sun Sep 26 11:56:16 UTC 2004


On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:45:27PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:

> There are benefits of labelling? Maybe on big systems with lots of SCSI
> devices which get moved around,

It's useful for me on a box that has two dozen USB disks attached to
it, since the disk-to-device-node mapping changes on every boot for
USB (and IIRC also for firewire) disks, and each disk has its own
filesystem.

Yeah, that's pretty much the only case where it has benefits.


--L





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