Linux is not about choice [was Re: Fedora too cutting edge?]
Douglas McClendon
dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org
Thu Jan 10 21:00:48 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>
>>> Is it a user program that has changed my /dev/hdX into /dev/sdX more
>>> or less arbitrarily
>>
>> Can you say "filesystem labels"? I thought so.
>
> I can say it won't fix an existing configuration. I can say that
> filesystem label creation wasn't well thought out for people that move
> disks around (after you've installed fedora on all your machines,
> they'll all have the same labels and the system is not happy when you
> rebuild a machine with a different combination of drives).
I can answer this one: Require people to name their system at install
(like windows, like macosx, e.g. john-pc), perhaps with a default coming
from install date (200807110711), and then make the default fslabels be
prefixed with that name and an underscore. e.g. john-pc_/usr
problem solved.
-dmc
I can say
> that the design of solaris seems to take machine management over long
> intervals of time and large numbers of machines into consideration
> whereas Linux does not.
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