On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Which was one of my suggestions, only I wouldn't use labels, but uuids (not every partition has a label, all have uuids).
However, every other udev update breaks labels and uuids for device-mapper devices (like lvm), so we'd need exceptions for those (they have persistant names anyway) ... all not that pretty.
I like the idea of using uuid's too.. it won't be too pretty, but it will give us a default that works. People can always change it to /dev/sda3 if they want I would say: use UUIDs and document where and when breakage occurs (device-mapper). Let's face it, a vast majority of people probably don't use lvm or crypto devices... and those that do are knowledgeable enough to know they may need special configuration dances