[Leaplist] fstab

[Homer Whittaker]

I have noticed many calls for Fedora lately.  What's with that?  Is is 
ever so much better or what is going on?????

Homer Whittaker


Jim Hartley wrote:
> 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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