David Woodhouse wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > One reason why this may NOT ever make it into the kernel is that I > > know "kernel poking at devices" is really frowned upon. > > A possible alternative is to specify drives by serial number. Currently mount(8) supports mounting by '-L <label>' and '-U <UUID>'. Most modern mke2fs proggies will assign a UUID to each newly created filesystem. For /etc/fstab, you can specify LABEL=xxx or UUID=xxx instead of a device name. The one thing I don't know is... can the kernel mount the root fs if only given the uuid? Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns MandrakeSoft | and those who dig. You dig." --Blondie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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