Re: should an end user stick to a kernel with an initrd?
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 13:34 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf
>> <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 19:07 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Traditional device names, such as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb,
>>>> (and therefore the partitions on those devices, such
>>>> as /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, etc.) are not assigned in a predictable
>>>> manner anymore. This device name assignment can change from one boot
>>>> to the next.
>>>
>>> This never happened on my machine.
>>
>> This won't happen if you have just one disk. ;)
>>
>> On a more serious note, do you really think that all the people
>> maintaining distributions thought "using sdX is far too simple and
>> easy, let's start using human-non-parsable UUIDs?!"
>
> At least 2 disks are mounted, while I prefer to use labels, sd* anyway
> does work too.
I couldn't care less how many disks you have.
Defaulting to the use of UUIDs isn't some wacky whim but a
well-reasoned technical decision, unless you want to claim to know
more than the developers putting together distributions.
This isn't a question of "/dev/sdX works for me, yay!" The issue is
that device names aren't NECESSARILY stable (some would say that
they've never been so) so, distributions are using UUIDs in order to
avoid having any Linux user anywhere be unable to boot because sda is
now sdc, sdb is now sda, and sdc is now sdb...
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