Re: RFC: Don't label filesystems

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen redhat com>]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 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 :-/

Yup... and by the time you have to type this, since you're probably
looking pretty closely at the system at this point, you can probably
just give it /dev/sd<whatever> for that bootup.

-Eric