Re: fstab update for persistent device names

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> writes:

> Hi folks
>
> For the libata-pata support we need to change fstab on several arches to
> not break all systems which uses them.
>
> We need to decide which arches needs this rewrite now and which value
> should be filed in.
>
> There are 5 or so variants:
> - /dev/disk/by-id: Includes disk serial number or wwnn.
> - /dev/disk/by-label: Filesystem label.
> - /dev/disk/by-path: Includes pci device and lun.
> - /dev/disk/by-uuid: UUID of filesystem. Maybe we want the uuid of md
>   devices also?
> - LABEL=
> - UUID=

Which of those change and why?

I don't see how an libata update would change the serial number of the
disk, the filesystem label, ....

        Goswin