On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 09:34:55PM +0200, Janjaap van Velthooven wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 08:12:28PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2011/06/22 21:07, Wouter Coene wrote: > > > Also, this is certainly not useless if you have more than a handfull of > > > disks > > > or SAN volumes, or for removable media. Which of the following is more > > > readable? > > > > > > mount 1234567890abcdef.a /mnt > > > mount backups.a /mnt > > > > mount bac0000000000001.a /mnt isn't too bad :-) > > Just a vague idea for the moment; > > How aboot some mechanism that can do number lookups by name for disks? > ( just like is done for host protocols ports or users and groups and possibly > more things.. ) > > for instance an /etc/disks with lines like: > 1234567890abcdef backups bac0000000000001 > > Anyways, as I have no code for something like this at this moment I'll shut up > for now on this.
/etc/disks DUID myrootdisk /etc/fstab myrootdisk.a / ffs rw,softdep 1 1 And now I'm royally fucked.
