Re: Devfs, was Re: Migrating to larger numbers
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:15:34 +1000
Guest section writes:
> From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
>
> Alan Cox writes:
>
> > Once you are managing large storage arrays you need a saner naming
> > system. Not devfs though, although you can build it over devfs just
> > fine - you end up needing mount by uuid/volume name. Anything else
> > is just plain horrible to manage updates.
>
> Ultimately I'd like to see proper volume-based mounting. Not UUIDs (as
> Linus said to me privately, 128 bit numbers are ugly), but proper
> names. Like "root", "usr", "local", "home", "data", "tmp", "swap" and
> so on.
>
> Maybe you don't know, but we have that today.
>
> LABEL=Boot /boot ext2 noauto 0 0
>
> and
>
> UUID=3e6be9de-8139-11d1-9106-a43f08d823a6 /boot ext2 noauto 0 0
>
> both work in fstab.
For root?
Regards,
Richard....
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