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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Justin Cormack <justin@street-vision.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.7 block ramblings (was Re: DMA for ide-scsi?)
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:20:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F64A37A.1040803@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1063538182.1510.78.camel@lotte.street-vision.com>

Justin Cormack wrote:
> LABEL= is so broken that I immediately remove it from all my redhat
> systems. It is not unique at all. As soon as you plug another system
> disk into your system at boot time all hell breaks loose.

That's your fault as a sysadmin ;-)

> At least it
> could have a random number in it or something.

You can use UUIDs today!  :)


> If you need to know your bootdisk (why?) why not just get the bootloader
> to tell you?

The only time one cares what the boot disk is, is when _installing_ the 
boot loader...

	Jeff




  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-14 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-13 20:16 2.7 block ramblings (was Re: DMA for ide-scsi?) James Bottomley
2003-09-13 21:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-14 11:15   ` Justin Cormack
2003-09-14 15:02     ` Alan Cox
2003-09-14 16:55       ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-09-14 17:01     ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-14 17:24       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-14 18:55       ` Alan Cox
2003-09-16  2:38         ` Thomas Molina
2003-09-16 13:56           ` Alan Cox
2003-09-14 17:20     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-09-14 16:12   ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-14 17:30     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-13  2:11       ` Matt Domsch
2003-09-14 22:26         ` Alan Cox
2003-09-13  6:05           ` Matt Domsch
2003-09-15 22:16           ` Matt Domsch
2003-09-15  3:23         ` Andre Hedrick
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-13 11:01 DMA for ide-scsi? Mikael Pettersson
2003-09-13 18:04 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-13 18:49   ` 2.7 block ramblings (was Re: DMA for ide-scsi?) Jeff Garzik
2003-09-13 19:01     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-13 19:06       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-15  7:34       ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-16 19:49         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-16 19:55           ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-20 18:28             ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-20 22:16               ` Alan Cox
2003-09-20 22:22                 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-20 22:46                   ` Alan Cox
2003-09-21  9:23               ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-13 19:24     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-09-13 19:57       ` Jeff Garzik

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