Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:26:47PM +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:05:09PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > On Mar 07, "Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <rmillan@ackstorm.es> wrote:
> >
> > > Labels are not well tested and a source of problems indeed.
> > The /dev/disk/by-*/ devices are well tested and I do not know about
> > problems posed by them.
>
> I thought we were talking about fstab device labels. fsck doesn't seem to
> work well with them.
I don't know what /dev/disk/by-* do with name collisions, but the result is
pretty much everything but what you would expect with the LABEL= syntax
(i.e. when libblkid is used). Name collisions on labels are really not
unlikely.
Mike
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