Re: 2.7 block ramblings (was Re: DMA for ide-scsi?)

Jeff Garzik
2003-09-14T17:21:14Z

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