From: ilf <ilf@zeromail.org>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] persistent naming: add ID in addition to UUID
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 21:26:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150727192634.GG16353@zeromail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <420ab8fdd4afe54db20611d3a179dbe6.squirrel@ssl.verfeiert.org>
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Sven Eschenberg:
> Since you want to use crypttab anyway, is there any particular reason not
> to use /dev/disk/by-id/<identifier>?
You are comlpetely right, that works and I should probably use that.
> As UUID=<uuid> needs proper symlinks anyway, it is rather a handy
> shorthand at the commandline.
Well, the man-page for crypttab(5) in Debian and Derivatives sais, "the
UUID is supported as well, using UUID=<luks_uuid>". So adding an ID=
option would make this more consistent.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-27 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-26 17:02 [dm-crypt] persistent naming: add ID in addition to UUID ilf
2015-07-26 18:25 ` Sven Eschenberg
2015-07-27 19:26 ` ilf [this message]
2015-07-27 19:49 ` Milan Broz
2015-07-27 21:53 ` Sven Eschenberg
2015-07-27 21:47 ` Sven Eschenberg
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