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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>
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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.

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