[Leaplist] fstab

[Jim Hartley]

OK, I see the value for large and/or complex installations. But for the 
user who is NOT going to do this stuff, who is never going to move disks 
around, and who always wants the NEXT install to look like the previous 
one, it's a PITA. Perhaps the solution is to keep the default using 
UUIDs, but provide an option during the install process to select "hard 
coded devices in fstab". For **MY** personal convenience, I am going to 
get rid of the damn LABELs I have now, and when I get around to 
installing Fedora 9 (fairly soon) I will just edit fstab to get eid of 
the UUIDs.

Some installs DO NOT NEED the extra security - the good ole convenient 
way is jes' fine!

Jim Hartley

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> 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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