Re: RFC: Don't label filesystems

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen redhat com>]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 04:28 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Do you really want your disk to be known as 
>> 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 ?
>>
> 
> It's more correct than "/dev/sda" which can change based on the order of
> things plugged in, or the order of detection, and it's more unique than
> an arbitrary label.

It's unique, but awfully hard to type if you need to mount something
manually by that designator.

FWIW, on multi-root boxes, /1, /2, /3 (or whatever the current scheme
is) isn't all that helpful either.  And I think (though haven't really
investigated...) that something has been getting it wrong and making
duplicate labels in F9.

(that being said, sometimes on said boxes I do label things FC6, F7,
RHEL4, etc to make things easier for me... but that's my decision as an
administrator...)

To a a lot of users, though, seeing "root=<scary string>" might be
confusing.  There should probably be a minimal education campaign if the
change is made.

Hm, and think of the fstab formatting issues.  ;)

-Eric