From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.22-rc1 Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:23:04 -0700 Message-ID: <8C224544-0713-4419-8398-145D8A44B301@gmail.com> References: <20120727073719.GC15787@x2.net.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Karel Zak Return-path: Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:59566 "EHLO mail-yx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751962Ab2G1B0C convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:26:02 -0400 Received: by yenl2 with SMTP id l2so3784178yen.19 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:26:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120727073719.GC15787@x2.net.home> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2012-07-27, at 0:37, Karel Zak wrote: > The util-linux release v2.22-rc1 is available at > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/ > > Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed. > > Karel > > > Util-linux 2.22 Release Notes > ============================ > > Release highlights > ------------------ > > mount(8), umount(8), swapon(8), blkid(8) and findmnt(8): > - supports PARTUUID= and PARTLABEL= tags to specify block devices by partition > UUID or LABEL (for example for UEFI GPT). These tags are filesystem > independent and provide persistent configuration (your /etc/fstab setting > will not be affected by mkfs/mkswap changes). Do we really need separate names for partition labels vs. filesystem labels? We already have partition UUIDs with LVM and MD RAID, so why add separate names for them? They are supposed to be unique already, so mount should be able to find the same partition regardless of whether the source is a partition UUID/LABEL vs. a filesystem label? It just makes things more confusing for users, IMHO. Cheers, Andreas