Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.7 block ramblings (was Re: DMA for ide-scsi?) | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Sun, 14 Sep 2003 16:02:41 +0100 |
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On Sul, 2003-09-14 at 12:15, Justin Cormack wrote: > LABEL= is so broken that I immediately remove it from all my redhat > systems. It is not unique at all. As soon as you plug another system > disk into your system at boot time all hell breaks loose. At least it > could have a random number in it or something.
You can use UUID's for labels too if you prefer. I normally write a host string into my labels. What I actually want is mount by label to develop an rpc service so I can mount by label and if the disk is in another box NFS it 8)
> If you need to know your bootdisk (why?) why not just get the bootloader > to tell you?
The bootloader doesn't know. It has a bios concept of the boot device which is really hard if at all possible to translate without things like EDD.
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