On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 03:22:07AM -0600, William Pitcock wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 00:19 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> > In article <87bptnccj6....@mid.deneb.enyo.de> you wrote:
> > > What needs to be done so that these two issues can be fixed?
> > > 
> > > | Disk devices may change on reboot
> > 
> > A good option would be to use LABEL or UID instead. However I am not sure 
> > if that has some drawbacks as well:
> > 
> > - for uuid the system is less forgiving if you swap disks
> > - for label the system is less forgiving if you bring in temp. new disks
> > 
> > So I think UUID has less risks.
> 
> Anaconda uses LABEL. I don't know the full rationale on why this is, but
> it may be a good idea to follow suit.

And thanks to that, it's a PITA to have several RH/Fedora installs on the
same computer.

Mike


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