F7T4 and SATA/IDE testing - a call to arms!

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 07:43 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 17.04.2007 00:25, Will Woods wrote:
> > [...]
> > This is your early warning that F7Test4 - the last of the pre-F7 test
> > releases - is coming out NEXT WEEK. 
> > 
> > IF YOU HAVE BEEN HAVING PROBLEMS WITH DISK DETECTION AND/OR OTHER
> > DISK-RELATED THINGS, please read this!
> 
> Just FYI, I updated two machines with pata drives to rawhide some weeks 
> ago and it worked (using mount by labels). But on one machine I had an 
> oddity: that machine was installed long ago (FC2/FC3) when we didn't use 
> "mount swap by label" -- thus the swap partition /dev/hda? was still 
> hardcoded in /etc/fstab. I noticed that oddity because suspend-to-disk 
> wasn't working.
> 
> Not sure if it's worth fixing by anaconda -- according to feedback in 
> #fedora-devel from weeks ago it probably isn't

We at least are going to try to give some useful feedback.  And also add
some bits to the release notes about how to make sure your fstab is
using labels for physical disk partitions.

Jeremy