On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 01:32:15PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: > It has been explained that using the NTFS UUID is about equivalent of > using the volume label. If it is sufficient why are we using UUIDs at > all? We can use the much more readable labels everywhere and get rid > of those long and impractical UUIDs completely.
Volume labels (in the general case; I don't know specifically about NTFS) are set by system administrators by hand. GRUB cannot assume that any filesystem has a volume label, or that they don't clash. (For example, Red Hat's installer used to have the unwise policy of setting labels to match the mount point; thus two Red Hat installations on the same machine would produce label collisions.) The appropriate policy for use of labels is to permit them to be used when requested by the system administrator, but not to use them by default. I posted an analysis of all the generic available methods for filesystem identification to debian-boot a while back: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/12/msg00338.html -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
