On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Simo Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 07:56:27PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>  > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > >  Which was one of my suggestions, only I wouldn't use labels, but uuids 
> (not
>  > > every partition has a label, all have uuids).
>  > >
>  > >  However, every other udev update breaks labels and uuids for 
> device-mapper
>  > > devices (like lvm), so we'd need exceptions for those (they have 
> persistant
>  > > names anyway) ... all not that pretty.
>  >
>  > I like the idea of using uuid's too.. it won't be too pretty, but it
>  > will give us a default that works. People can always change it to
>  > /dev/sda3 if they want
>  >
>  > I would say: use UUIDs and document where and when breakage occurs
>  > (device-mapper). Let's face it, a vast majority of people probably
>  > don't use lvm or crypto devices... and those that do are knowledgeable
>  > enough to know they may need special configuration dances
>  >
>  Done and done. Changes are in my git tree. Still need to hit the docs
>  [with a sledgehammer].

You modified the installer to use UUIDs? Neat. Do you have the code up
somewhere?

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