Installer request

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 29/03/2011, at 19:49, Lars Engels wrote:
>> What do you think of using GPT UUIDs in fstab?
>> 
>> It does make the fstab rather ugly but makes the system more robust in the face of disk changes and so on..
> 
> Please don't do that by default. I really hate to open a linux fstab, I
> don't want that on FreeBSD, too.

I agree it's ugly, but I don't edit my fstab very often :)

> IMHO geom labels would be sufficient.

The problem is that labels tend to be the same between machines because they all have /, swap, etc..

BTW GPT can store a label as well as having a UUID.

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