Re: Re: Search GPT partition in GRUB

[gburanov@gmail.com]

-- Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote : 
Colin Watson wrote:
>> It would be ideal if we can search the GPT partition/disk by GUID -
>> that's what we got NTFS GUID for =)
>>     
>
> That would be nice, and it might not be all that difficult to implement,
> but of course it would take up extra precious space in the core image.
> I don't think it's really necessary in this case.
>
>   
> Implementing it isn't difficult but it's confusing to have two types of
> UUIDs. I'm not sure we need GPT UUIDs. grub-mkconfig will continue to
> use  filesystem UUIDs, so GPT UUIDs will only be used in maual
> configuration. But in the latter case it's much easier to use filesystem
> labels when writing configuration manually. Probability of collision
> with n-partitions and k bits is lower than
> n^2*2^(-k-1)
> Even with 1024 partitions and 32-bit IDs it's under 1 over 8192.
> Fell free to detail usage cases when my logic is wrong (e.g. disk
> configuration, who writes config, external factors and so on)

As I said already (see upper), NTFS volume serial number (that's really UUID in NTFS) is not really unique, so that's not a good way of identification.

> Cheers,
>
>   


-- 
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko




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