On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 14:01 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > For what it's worth, add my voice to the "disk labels in /etc/fstab is > retarded" chorus. Who ever made this design decision had to have been > smoking some quality South American weed to have thought this was a > good idea. It was a good idea. I can remember scsi devices changing just because I loaded SCSI emulation (no longer necessary) to burn a CD-R. I've moved disks around on IDE bus because certain operating system insisted in being installed to the master - with disk labels, all I had to do was tell the bios to boot from the slave and not the master - and everything just worked. It's a great idea. I think a unique identifier (such as a time stamp) as part of the string put into the LABEL would make it more user friendly (and it would solve the problem), but I like having the mount point as part of the string too. But discussing here is not going to result in anything done - someone who feels that it needs to be done needs to file an RFE so that the appropriate Red Hat people can see the request.
