Rant on LABELs

Enrico Scholz enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Tue Sep 28 09:23:23 UTC 2004


cmadams at hiwaay.net (Chris Adams) writes:

>> ACK. Especially because only the RH kernel supports labeled
>> root-devices. With every other kernel you will run into kernel
>> panics since the 'root=LABEL=/' is not understood.
>
> The Red Hat kernels don't support mounting root by label either.

Oh... but this does not make the label thing better. initrd images are
superfluously in most cases and are making the booting yet more slow. It is
stupid that the FC kernel package (resp. /sbin/new-kernel-pkg) creates
LABEL entries in grub.conf although already existing templates have working
device-names.



Enrico




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