Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:02:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:02:27 -0500 Received: from ns.caldera.de ([212.34.180.1]:7942 "EHLO ns.caldera.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:02:18 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:01:01 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Lars Kellogg-Stedman Cc: Christoph Hellwig , John Jasen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, AmNet Computers Subject: Re: magic device renumbering was -- Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20 Message-ID: <20010314210101.B19588@caldera.de> Mail-Followup-To: Lars Kellogg-Stedman , John Jasen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, AmNet Computers In-Reply-To: <200103141823.TAA11310@ns.caldera.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from lars@larsshack.org on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:11:57PM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:11:57PM -0500, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote: > > Put LABEL= in you fstab in place of the device name. > > Which is great, for filesystems that support labels. Unfortunately, > this isn't universally available -- for instance, you cannot mount > a swap partition by label or uuid, so it is not possible to completely > isolate yourself from the problems of disk device renumbering. True. Let's mark for 2.5 ToDO list: magic number for swap... Just because it does not work universally it doesn't have to be a bad idea... Christoph -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/