On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Scott Long wrote: > The only big downside to using the 'da' device moniker for SATA disks > is that it hinders people who want to experiment with switching back > and forth between the old and new ahci/ata drivers. I feel for these > people, and I don't like making their lives hard. But on the other > hand, this is a transition period, and experimenting is not without > headaches and risks. A day will come, hopefully fairly soon, where > switching between the two subsystems is no longer needed, and I don't > like catering to a short term need at the expense of a long-term > need.
If you are such a user it is trivial to switch to using UFS ID labels. Swap is a little more complex but you can use glabel fairly easily. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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