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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:58:24 +0300
From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: SATA disk device naming ?
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On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:15:04PM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> I assumed that "LABEL=3D/" thing is a RedHat-specific kernel's feature bu=
t=20
> never bothered to check.

This is a common misconception. The LABEL magic is actually done by
nash, which is part of RH's (and others) mkinitrd package. This also
means that LABEL relies on having a working initrd.=20

I have a short writeup of my understanding of how this works at
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mulix/84768.html. All AFAIUI,
corrections welcome.=20

Cheers,=20
Muli=20


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