On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 10:09:13AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> I would have a file that contained what you found on the last
> boot, and what you called it.

If you're going to keep named disks/partitions, then that information
should be on the disk label.  That way you can shuffle your disks
around as much as you like, even between machines (or dual-attach
them), and all still works.

This is getting much more into the LVM territory; certainly it's
a feature of several existing LVMs.

We might consider it even for a new NetBSD on-disk label format
even without LVM, and also sticking a random volume serial number
in there, but that won't help disks that don't have such a label,
and there are still LVM-like issues even for those that do.

--
Dan.