Why not just name the cam-ata devices the same as the old names?

[Doug Barton]

On 04/26/2011 16:04, Mikael Fridh wrote:
> Are labels such a perilous affair that you can't just start
> recommending them and/or default to them?

As far as I can tell, yes. We have various different tools that do 
different things, all calling themselves "labels" which don't all work 
together well. It's also unclear how many (if any) of those solutions 
will survive the file system being newfs'ed.

I made this point elsewhere, but this is an area where linux really has 
us beat. At install time a UUID is created for a file system if it 
doesn't already have one and it's referred to that way in fstab. My 
understanding (although I have yet to test it) is that they survive 
newfs because they are not located on the fs itself. When I first saw 
this I thought it was ugly (read, different) but having worked with it a 
little bit I think it's a much superior method, and would have made the 
current concerns completely irrelevant. 
http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/146951


Doug

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