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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 19:45:28 +0100 (CET)
From: Peter Svensson <petersv@psv.nu>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
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Subject: Re: magic device renumbering was -- Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Put LABEL=<label set with e2label> in you fstab in place of the device name.
>
> 	Christoph
>
> P.S. UUID= work, too - but I prefer a human-readable label...

There are a lot of different devices besides disks, e.g. tape drives etc.
I seem to remember from the last round this came up that modern FC fabrics
have some dynamic properties that may require more intelligence in the
kernel.

Peter
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