Re: RFC: Don't label filesystems

["G.Wolfe Woodbury" <ggw wolves durham nc us>]

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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.

But it's not "user friendly" in that it has no meaning that the user can
associate to the contents.

It /could/ be argued that the user should never have to worry about the
names of his disk partitions, but that is a bad assumption about the
user's level of sophistication and experience.

To me, this another step backwards.

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Wolfe
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