David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> adilger@turbolinux.com said:
> > One reason why this may NOT ever make it into the kernel is that I
> > know "kernel poking at devices" is really frowned upon.
>
> A possible alternative is to specify drives by serial number.
Currently mount(8) supports mounting by '-L <label>' and '-U <UUID>'.
Most modern mke2fs proggies will assign a UUID to each newly created
filesystem. For /etc/fstab, you can specify LABEL=xxx or UUID=xxx
instead of a device name.
The one thing I don't know is... can the kernel mount the root fs if
only given the uuid?
Jeff
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