From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
To: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@larsshack.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>, John Jasen <jjasen1@umbc.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
AmNet Computers <amnet@amnet-comp.com>
Subject: Re: magic device renumbering was -- Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:01:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010314210101.B19588@caldera.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200103141823.TAA11310@ns.caldera.de> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0103141410360.2004-100000@flowers.house.larsshack.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0103141410360.2004-100000@flowers.house.larsshack.org>; from lars@larsshack.org on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:11:57PM -0500
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:11:57PM -0500, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> > Put LABEL=<label set with e2label> in you fstab in place of the device name.
>
> Which is great, for filesystems that support labels. Unfortunately,
> this isn't universally available -- for instance, you cannot mount
> a swap partition by label or uuid, so it is not possible to completely
> isolate yourself from the problems of disk device renumbering.
True. Let's mark for 2.5 ToDO list: magic number for swap...
Just because it does not work universally it doesn't have to be a bad idea...
Christoph
--
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-14 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-13 16:41 Linux 2.4.2ac20 David Balazic
2001-03-13 19:24 ` Nathan Walp
2001-03-13 23:02 ` Tim Wright
2001-03-14 9:31 ` David Balazic
2001-03-14 15:12 ` Nathan Walp
2001-03-14 15:36 ` magic device renumbering was -- " John Jasen
2001-03-14 16:27 ` Tim Wright
2001-03-14 18:15 ` Greg KH
2001-03-15 1:53 ` Tim Wright
2001-03-15 2:08 ` Greg KH
2001-03-14 18:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-03-14 18:45 ` Peter Svensson
2001-03-14 19:11 ` Lars Kellogg-Stedman
2001-03-14 19:34 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-03-14 19:44 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-03-15 13:46 ` John Jasen
2001-03-14 20:01 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2001-03-16 9:11 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-03-14 19:16 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-03-14 20:08 ` John Jasen
2001-03-15 3:04 ` Stephen Degler
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-15 21:50 Mikael Pettersson
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