Re: [RFC] Persistent naming of scsi devices

Oliver Neukum
2002-04-08T17:51:59Z

On Monday 08 April 2002 17:04, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:18:44AM -0600, sullivan wrote:
> > I would welcome any thoughts, comments, or suggestions.
>
> What is the rationale for doing this? I think we should rather get people
> to actually use the UUID= option to mount..

UUID cannot solve the problem. It identifies filesystems.
There's a need to identify devices. Not everything
is a hard drive with a filesystem on it.

Regards
Oliver