Rant on LABELs

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Mon Sep 27 18:27:28 UTC 2004


Wouldn't that imply starting hald before mounting the disks?

man, 27.09.2004 kl. 20.27 skrev Ola Thoresen:
> Mon, 27 Sep 2004 at 16:05 GMT Elliot Lee <sopwith at redhat.com> wrote
> > On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> > to ensure that the random number would be virtually unique which means
> >> > long numbers ;-).
> >> 
> >> well but ext2/3 do have UUID's; there's no reason we can't do
> >> mount-by-UUID as well.
> > 
> > We do have mount-by-UUID:
> > 
> > mount UUID=b04a5cd1-3f15-45d3-8c25-3ef732eb3d82 /mnt/point
> 
> 
> I think it's easier to remember hda1 or hdc5 than
> b04a5cd1-3f15-45d3-8c25-3ef732eb3d82 ...
> 
> But how about some kind of "fallback" to mount by uid if duplicate
> labels are found?
> 
> At install time or any time the admin wants, a script is run, writing
> something like /etc/sysconfig/mountpoints with
> <LABEL> <UUID>
> 
> /       b04a5cd1-3f15-45d3-8c25-3ef732eb3d82
> /boot   0f59430f-d62e-4de8-b553-7760822293ca
> 
> 
> This info is _only_ checked if there are duplicate labels found.
> 
> That way you can still have the easy to remember LABEL=/ in fstab, but
> still avoid problems if more than one partition has the same label.
> 
> But this start to sound like something hald or udev (or whatever is
> responsible for this kind of actions) could do better?
> 
> 
> Rgds.
> 
> Ola Thoresen
> 
> 
> 





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