Device change for Sil 3112 in latest kernel

Russell Coker russell at coker.com.au
Mon Aug 9 07:48:48 UTC 2004


On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 05:31, Tom Diehl <tdiehl at rogueind.com> wrote:
> >this is why we use mount-by-label for everything.
> >The fact that swap seems not to migrate automatic is a bug in swapon.
>
> Mount by label is not the panacea you make it out to be. Ever accidentally
> add a disk to a machine that has the same labels as the existing disks?

Maybe what we need is a UUID for the machine so that it won't automatically 
mount the disks from another machine.  This could be done in one of two ways.  
One is for the system to know the UUID, the other is for the configuration 
system to just append a UUID when creating labels for mount-by-label.

It would be really good if we could have something similar for software RAID 
(it would be a real bummer if you booted with a new disk installed only to 
find that it had the same RAID-1 device as your root file system but with a 
higher access count).

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