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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Subject: Re: Switching from (deprecated) IDE driver -> SATA (PATA support)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:36:40 +0300
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To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com

Hello.

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>> It comes with one :)
>> # xfs_admin -u  /dev/sdd2
>> UUID = 77ae4251-631f-4656-a365-c5723f5c5da8
>>
>> Will try to use this to boot; however, I'd prefer the labels over the 
>> UUID, wish there was an easy way to set it.
>>     
>
> I prefer UUIDs.
>
> Much mroe likely to have the same label on multiple drives than the same
> UUID.

   For example, CentOS 4.3 went crazy in such case, being unable to 
mount anything but root IIRC.

MBR, Sergei