Re: RFC: Don't label filesystems

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 10:39 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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.

Typing root=LABEL= is pretty painful too given that you won't
necessarily know whether it's /, /1, Fedora9-Root (yes, this has been
suggested), ...

If you're having to manually type in the root device, we've probably
already lost :-/

Jeremy