Re: udev device naming policy concerns

[Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:02:01PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Only for file systems which support this, and only for when they can be
> referenced by fstab. Swap partitions are a common example of why this is
> not enough.

Swap partitions are listed in /etc/fstab.  As far as mkswap not
understanding them, this can be fixed by simply adding a UUID and
Label field to the swap header.  There's plenty of space there.

This would involve modifying the following programs:

	* mkswap
	* swapon
	* The blkid library

It wouldn't be hard; I'll see if I can get Andreas Brouwer, the
maintainer of the util-linux upstream package, to accept it.

					- Ted