hello max, On 07/08/2009 Max Vozeler wrote: > Hello fellow maintainers, > > we recently changed d-i (partman-target, to be precise) to use > UUIDs in fstab in order to get stable device naming. > > Currently UUIDs are used for all devices except > - /dev/fd* > - cryptsetup mappings > - those specified by explicit /dev/disk/by-* paths > > Since then, we concluded that it is preferable to go back to plain > /dev/mapper/ paths for LVM LVs because those already provide stable > device naming (and are more descriptive). > > What about your types of devices? (dmraid, multipath) > > Should we refer to them by UUID or with the /dev/mapper/ paths?
i suggest to go the same way for all device-mapper devices. at least the same argument (stable device names and more descriptive) holds for all of them. so i don't see a reason why to treat lvm devices different from dmraid or dm-crypt devices. greetings, jonas
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