Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261216AbTINRVO (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:21:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261218AbTINRVO (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:21:14 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:7400 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261216AbTINRVN (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:21:13 -0400 Message-ID: <3F64A37A.1040803@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:20:58 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Cormack CC: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: 2.7 block ramblings (was Re: DMA for ide-scsi?) References: <1063484193.1781.48.camel@mulgrave> <20030913212723.GA21426@gtf.org> <1063538182.1510.78.camel@lotte.street-vision.com> In-Reply-To: <1063538182.1510.78.camel@lotte.street-vision.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 789 Lines: 28 Justin Cormack wrote: > LABEL= is so broken that I immediately remove it from all my redhat > systems. It is not unique at all. As soon as you plug another system > disk into your system at boot time all hell breaks loose. That's your fault as a sysadmin ;-) > At least it > could have a random number in it or something. You can use UUIDs today! :) > If you need to know your bootdisk (why?) why not just get the bootloader > to tell you? The only time one cares what the boot disk is, is when _installing_ the boot loader... Jeff - 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/