2016-10-28 3:32 GMT+02:00 Ian Stakenvicius <[email protected]>: > On 27/10/16 09:23 PM, Gregory Woodbury wrote: > > Out of curiosity, why do folks say that the use of LABEL=<name> is not > > good? I realize that <name>s are not required when doing a mkfs, but > > if the admin does so reliably and wants to use LABEL= thereafter, why > should > > it be "deprecated"? > > I don't think anyone said that the LABEL= syntax is bad; quite the > opposite -- WilliamH wants everyone using /dev/disk/by-label/<name> > paths in fstab to instead use LABEL=<name> , to avoid issues if udev > doesn't create the symlinks before localmount tries to use them. > > > Indeed nobody ever said "deprecated" some people (/me too) don't like to use labels and prefer UUIDs instead. - in some situations - To complete the statement labels are very good with fleets of servers with predefined and consistent disk layouts, or for some people desktop. When it come to a small number of server with different layouts they are equivalent in functionality but need managing and memory, when you substitute disk for example, simply not worth it.
Best, Francesco
