linux-kernel - Re: Switching from (deprecated) IDE driver -> SATA (PATA support)

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Message-ID: <497E4908.9060705@ru.mvista.com>
Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:36:40 +0300
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
To:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: Switching from (deprecated) IDE driver -> SATA (PATA support)

Hello.

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>> It comes with one :)
>> # xfs_admin -u  /dev/sdd2
>> UUID = 77ae4251-631f-4656-a365-c5723f5c5da8
>>
>> Will try to use this to boot; however, I'd prefer the labels over the 
>> UUID, wish there was an easy way to set it.
>>     
>
> I prefer UUIDs.
>
> Much mroe likely to have the same label on multiple drives than the same
> UUID.

   For example, CentOS 4.3 went crazy in such case, being unable to 
mount anything but root IIRC.

MBR, Sergei


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