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.

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