On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 05:00:40PM +0100, Roger Brooks wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, David Maxwell wrote:
> 
> >
> >mount -l dm_root / 
> >
> >Where -l is meant to mean 'name from diskLabel'. If mount knew this, and
> 
> Duh... You mean mount wanders off, groping all the disks it can find until
> it gets one with the right label?  What if it finds more than one with the
> required label?  I don't see how you could enforce a requirement that the
> label names be unique (particularly if you have removeable media).

My answer to the second question is this -> you put two drives on SCSI ID 1,
you shot yourself in the foot. Have a nice day. As for the groping, yes it's
a bit ugly, but it's only once, at mount time.

> If you let it use the first matching label it finds, aren't you back where
> you started?  Also, unless they are *partition* labels (not disk labels),
> you couldn't quite do things as in your example (assuming you want more
> than one partition per disk).

Right. I wasn't attempting to be too precise here, more to get comments
on the concept, and see if this solved any of the issues the c?t?d?s?
people want.

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