On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 8:55 AM Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > > On 25/11/20 13:31, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Now, one area I would use UUIDs is with mdadm if you're not putting > > lvm on top. I've seen mdadm arrays get renumbered and that is a mess > > if you're directly mounting them without labels or UUIDs. > > It is recommended to use names, so I call it by what it is, so I have > things like /dev/md/gentoo, /dev/md/home etc.
Is that supported with the original metadata format? I suspect that was a big constraint since at the time my bootloader didn't support anything newer. This was many years ago. I haven't touched mdadm recently in favor of zfs and lizardfs. -- Rich
