Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis:
> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> "Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)" <clacke+gm...@lysator.liu.se> skribis:
>>
>>> So *that's* what the mysterious (title 'label) means!
>>
>> It’s not that mysterious:
>
> IMO, 'title' is a very confusing name for that field, because its value
> is not the title of anything, but rather determines how the value of the
> 'device' field will be interpreted.
Yeah, it’s not satisfying, but I didn’t have any better idea.
> However, to go a bit further: it would be great if all 'device' fields
> in the OS config used a consistent syntax for specifying devices by
> label or uuid. I prefer to reference my swap partition by label, so I
> use "/dev/disk/by-label/…" in 'swap-partitions', but the lack of
> symmetry with 'file-system' grates on me.
Right, that’s a problem.
> Here's an idea: the values of device fields could be either strings or
> lists of the form:
>
> (uuid "6f8ab…")
> (label "foo")
>
> Thoughts?
What about a <device> data type?
(device
(kind 'uuid)
(value "6f8ab…"))
Ludo’.
