From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
To: Ian Soboroff <ian.soboroff@nist.gov>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cdrecord hangs my computer
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 21:42:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16342.13236.198024.714840@alkaid.it.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9cfiskqjb99.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov>
Ian Soboroff writes:
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:
>
> > The stuff that supports LABEL= on a partition is a *partial*
> > solution to decouple the name of the device as the system found it
> > from a logical name, but as many have noted, it has its own issues.
>
> Yes, labels and UUIDs are great for those of us with lots of SCSI
> devices, so that adding a controller or changing a cable doesn't
> require _two_ boots (one to figure out where everything went and edit
> /etc/fstab, one for real).
>
> I wish I could LABEL swap partitions.
In March 2001 I posted a patch for util-linux to support that:
http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/swap-label/swap-label-patch-2001-03-15
There was only minor interest in the thing, so I've not
pursued it any further.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-09 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-06 8:01 Tero Knuutila
2003-12-06 8:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-06 8:54 ` Ethan Weinstein
2003-12-06 11:59 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-06 13:40 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-06 14:37 ` John Bradford
2003-12-06 21:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-06 22:02 ` Larry McVoy
2003-12-06 22:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-07 11:01 ` Eduard Bloch
2003-12-07 16:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 16:21 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-08 17:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-09 12:38 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-12-08 17:53 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-12-08 18:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 19:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-12-09 14:50 ` Ian Soboroff
2003-12-09 20:42 ` Mikael Pettersson [this message]
2003-12-08 16:24 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-08 19:22 ` dialectical deprecation " Bob
2003-12-09 21:19 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-09 22:31 ` David Lang
2003-12-09 21:51 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-08 4:36 ` Bob
2003-12-08 4:51 ` Larry McVoy
2003-12-07 0:16 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-07 3:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-07 4:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 16:13 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-08 17:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-08 19:41 ` bluefaceplate demographics " Bob
2003-12-06 16:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-06 12:39 Tero Knuutila
2003-12-06 18:27 Tero Knuutila
2003-12-06 19:08 Tero Knuutila
2003-12-08 9:31 Douglas Gilbert
2003-12-11 12:56 ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-11 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-15 13:29 Paul Marinceu
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