Re: "dynamic" fstab

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

asau%inbox.ru@localhost (Aleksej Saushev) writes:

>mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst) writes:

>> martin%duskware.de@localhost (Martin Husemann) writes:
>>
>>>On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 09:39:16AM +0400, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
>>>> I find it stupid to put UUID into a field that is meant to be 
>>>> human-readable
>>>> just to work around an obvious defect in operating system.
>>
>>>I agree - there should be a UUID= equivalent to NAME=.
>>
>> Not all disk partitions have a UUID. I also do not think that
>> UUIDs are particularly userfriendly. If UUIDs are meant to
>> provide a workaround for name conflicts, I rather suggest
>> that such conflicts should be resolved automatically by
>> generating new names possibly derived from the original
>> one.

>Even less disk partitions have unique "NAME".

Interesting enough, almost all do unless you explicitely set
them to something identical. And every disk we currently support
that has something like a UUID will have exactly that as a NAME.

The only conflicting scenario I am aware of are Apple users
that regularly name their partitions all alike and who then share
the partition with NetBSD.


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