> Out of curiosity: What is the rationale behind the last sentence in > FAQ: 14.21.5 - Softraid notes: > "You may not want to specify the root device by DUID." > > I dare to ask as the installer sets DUIDs for every partition incl. > "/". With this in mind I wonder why the root device should not be > specified by the DUID. This sentence lacks at least a hint on why not.
Yeah, this is unfortunate, I'll have to think a bit how to improve this situation.. > (Maybe it is just a misinterpretation of "may not" in this context - > to me this reads as "should not" like "better don't do it".) Does "There are legitimate reasons not to specify the root device by DUID." make more sense to you? I'd say it is roughly equivalent. There is a brief explanation for this at the very end of section 14.20: Note that we did not specify the altroot device by DUID, but by device name. We probably want to be pushing from the boot device to the secondary device, which can end up changing if the drive order is changed. For this reason, you may want to specify the root and altroot in /etc/fstab as a device name, not a DUID.
