Re: OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 10:23:42PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Well I remember the first time I saw devfs running, I thought "Wow
> > finally I have a way to find the disc that is scsi id 3 on controller 0
> > even if I add a device at id 2 after setting up the system", something
> > most unix systems have always had, but linux made hard (you had to
> > somehow figure out which id mapped to which /dev/sd* entry, which from a
> > users perspective wasn't trivial, and of course keeping your fstab in
> > sync with the mapping was a pain).
> 
> Why? Just use LABELs, ou UUIDs.

Great if those worked on ALL filesystems, which to my knowledge they do
not.  Last time I tried to use labels to mount filesystems, I gave up on
it when I discovered swap didn't support it.  I haven't bothered with
them since.

Len Sorensen
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