On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 10:46 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 03:22:07AM -0600, William Pitcock wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 00:19 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > > In article <87bptnccj6.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> you wrote: > > > > What needs to be done so that these two issues can be fixed? > > > > > > > > | Disk devices may change on reboot > > > > > > A good option would be to use LABEL or UID instead. However I am not sure if that has some drawbacks as well: > > > > > > - for uuid the system is less forgiving if you swap disks > > > - for label the system is less forgiving if you bring in temp. new disks > > > > > > So I think UUID has less risks. > > > > Anaconda uses LABEL. I don't know the full rationale on why this is, but > > it may be a good idea to follow suit. > > And thanks to that, it's a PITA to have several RH/Fedora installs on the > same computer. Yes, I could indeed see why this would be problematic. So, UUID might indeed be a better solution. William
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