From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 19 May 2001 16:38:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 19 May 2001 16:38:37 -0400 Received: from munchkin.spectacle-pond.org ([209.192.197.45]:38153 "EHLO munchkin.spectacle-pond.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 19 May 2001 16:38:23 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 16:20:11 -0400 From: Michael Meissner To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: Michael Meissner , Miles Lane , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Message-ID: <20010519162011.A22211@munchkin.spectacle-pond.org> In-Reply-To: <3B0261EC.23BE5EF0@idb.hist.no> <031ypp1oi2.fsf@colargol.tihlde.org> <3B028063.67442F62@idb.hist.no> <990030651.932.3.camel@agate> <20010516121815.B16609@munchkin.spectacle-pond.org> <20010518151750.A10515@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010518151750.A10515@redhat.com>; from sct@redhat.com on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:17:50PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:17:50PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 12:18:15PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote: > > > With the current LABEL= support, you won't be able to mount the disks with > > duplicate labels, but you can still mount them via /dev/sd. > > Or you can fall back to mounting by UUID, which is globally unique and > still avoids referencing physical location. You also don't need to > manually set LABELs for UUID to work: all e2fsprogs over the past > couple of years have set UUID on partitions, and e2fsck will create a > new UUID if it sees an old filesystem that doesn't already have one. Presumably, a new UUID is created each time format a partition, which means it is a slight bit of hassle if you have to reload a partition from a dump, or copy a partition to another disk drive. In the scheme of things, it is not a large hassle perhaps, but it is a hassle. -- Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group) PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA Work: meissner@redhat.com phone: +1 978-486-9304 Non-work: meissner@spectacle-pond.org fax: +1 978-692-4482