Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:59:12 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installer request Message-ID: <DB8BC58A-EB30-4B55-8C58-F25228827A66@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20110329091911.GB71165@e.0x20.net> References: <F0AA739B-32DD-49D8-BB37-FD5C8BF71382@gsoft.com.au> <4D90CC5E.80209@freebsd.org> <DE18E7BE-E2C0-42F2-8B8D-F26BC587EB17@gsoft.com.au> <20110329091911.GB71165@e.0x20.net>
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On 29/03/2011, at 19:49, Lars Engels wrote: >> What do you think of using GPT UUIDs in fstab? >>=20 >> It does make the fstab rather ugly but makes the system more robust = in the face of disk changes and so on.. >=20 > Please don't do that by default. I really hate to open a linux fstab, = I > don't want that on FreeBSD, too. I agree it's ugly, but I don't edit my fstab very often :) > IMHO geom labels would be sufficient. The problem is that labels tend to be the same between machines because = they all have /, swap, etc.. BTW GPT can store a label as well as having a UUID. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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