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Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug



On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:05:31PM -0000, peter green wrote:

> > Personally I also feel that all possible solutions effectively make
> > /etc/fstab unreadable and unmaintainable. Maybe Debian should 
> > lead the way 
> > to make /etc/fstab a generated file (like e.g. modules.conf used to be).
> what is so bad about /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:07.1-ide-0:0-part1 ?

That it's not a persistent means of identifying a filesystem.  It changes if
you move the PCI device, it changes if you change the SCSI/IDE bus address
of the drive, it changes if the kernel changes the name of the storage
subsystem used to access the device (on kernel upgrades), it breaks down
miserably if you use fiberchannel.

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