[Leaplist] fstab

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 09:35 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> This is now the default after an install/upgrade because people were
> often moving storage around (especially SANs) and causing label
> conflicts, let alone such things aren't an option for direct device
> entries.  ;)

Oh, I forgot the other, mega-biggie ...

  Software RAID

Seen too many people toast their Software RAID volumes by direct device
-- or even just /dev/md* -- access.  Not only are hardware devices
re-ordered, but MD devices as well.  UUIDs are not.

You don't like UUID?  Again, it's the only "safe" way.  Using it by
default will prevent you from doing a lot of stupid things on your
system.

Of course, if you like the "old way," you can use those too.  But you
run all sorts of risks if mappings have changed.  I assume you always
remember to mount with "read-only" (-o ro) by default when checking out
any filesystem as well?  ;)



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