Re: RFC: Don't label filesystems

[Patrick Devine <patrickd vmware com>]

We did that a long time ago for the VMware ESX installer and it has worked 
pretty well.  We did the same for swap as well which meant modifying 
mkswap too.

FWIW debian/ubuntu are already doing this.

--Patrick.

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> This is a somewhat crazy thought, but rather than continuing down the
> path of "what's the best label to use for a filesystem", what if we
> instead just stopped labeling them altogether?  We're going to use UUID
> for mounting anyway at which point we have our unique identifier.  And
> then we could get rid of a fair bit of really grotty code.
>
> Other opinions?
>
> Jeremy
>
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