Subject: Re: mounting device by name
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@megasignal.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/01/2004 18:14:01
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1 =D0=90=D0=BF=D1=80=D0=B5=D0=BB=D1=8C 2004 17:20 Hubert Feyrer =D0=BD=D0=
=B0=D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=81=D0=B0=D0=BB(a):
> I just stumbled across something nice in the Linux fstab(5) manpage that
> might be nice to adopt to some extent:
>
> Instead of giving the device explicitly, one may indicate
> the (ext2 or xfs) filesystem that is to be mounted by its
> UUID or volume label (cf. e2label(8) or xfs_admin(8)),
> writing LABEL=3D<label> or UUID=3D<uuid>, e.g., `LABEL=3DBoot'
> or `UUID=3D3e6be9de-8139-11d1-9106-a43f08d823a6'. This will
> make the system more robust: adding or removing a SCSI
> disk changes the disk device name but not the filesystem
> volume label.
>
>
> - Hubert
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2004/03/02/0000.html
AFAIK there no steps were done to implement it, but the idea is about the=20
same.
// wbr