> Consider a system with multiple removable ATA HDDs. If the bays connect
> to the host system via USB<->ATA bridges, the serial number that the
> host sees will be that of the bay, not the HDD itself.
Which is as it should be.
> Using volume labels or UUIDs in /etc/fstab is much safer. It works with
> everything except the root fs (could be fixed in 2.5, I suppose) and
> swap devices (impossible w/o changing the format).
Supposing that you can depend on UUIDs being present and being indeed unique.
> Device names must still be stable enough to allow for fdisk/format
> without any surprises, though.
Yes and this is the hard part as it basically means that UUIDs are optional.
In addition it is entirely legitimate to write a tarball to a raw device.
Regards
Oliver
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