Re: RFC: Don't label filesystems

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Jeremy Katz (katzj redhat com) said: 
> 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?

It makes it simpler code wise, and more predictable (you actually get
somethign unique). However, attempting to type in root=UUID= on the
commandline sounds painful.

Bill