Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:22:03PM -0000, peter green wrote:
> for most users fstab has always identified by rough position (e.g.
> hda=ide primary master), changing to a system based on partition IDs
> would mean a lot of relearning for admins (e.g. its no longer ok to
> backup a partition by dding it to another one)
Note that various of the solutions suggested in this thread break the
case where you *restore* from a dd'ed backup onto a new disk. If you
restore such a backup after a fatal disk crash, you want the result to
be mounted in the same place as before even though the drive ID and
possibly its physical location are different. Thus I don't agree that
by-id or by-path are good solutions to this problem; by-id even breaks
where old-style "IDE primary master"-type identification would have
worked fine.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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