Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:48:39 +1000 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Andrey Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r220983 - head Message-ID: <15C958E3-6CF7-48C4-88C9-2E61AC301657@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <E5C7935B-A333-4818-986C-4FD19DD73381@bsdimp.com> References: <201104240923.p3O9N8QG025386@svn.freebsd.org> <20110424161933.GA18775@vniz.net> <18B3AE1E-467E-4B23-81B9-AB1EDEFE1F7A@gsoft.com.au> <E5C45DAC-6014-42E2-9E1C-BFB7D54EBCB4@bsdimp.com> <34A34338-79E0-435E-9BF1-614D10FC9FC7@gsoft.com.au> <E5C7935B-A333-4818-986C-4FD19DD73381@bsdimp.com>
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On 26/04/2011, at 1:31, Warner Losh wrote: >> This is why I prefer IDs since they are nominally unique (UFS ones, = GPTs damn well better be :) >>=20 >> Although I concede it is rather annoying to work out which is which, = or type them out manually.. >=20 > For things like ZFS, UUIDs aren't so bad because it hides them. Yes, I use GPT with ZFS, it's good :) > For things like /etc/fstab, I prefer the named approach. This allows = me to survive a newfs on a partition if I have to without having to hack = my /etc/fstab. I have a large /tmp partition at times, and it gets = newfs'd if there's a bad problem... Yeah, but.. IMHO if the installer supports it then it is dramatically less painful.. I haven't looked to see how hard it is to add, hopefully I will get some = time to look RSN and it shouldn't be too difficult. FWIW the above shell snippet is found in a post [sys]install shell = script I used for 6.x and later so it has had a bit of testing. -- 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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