On 22/12/2024 15:29, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 22 December 2024 13:43:08 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote:
The trouble [is] that a kernel command line, or /etc/fstab, using lots
of these is not human readable, and hence is at the edge of
unmaintainability. This maintenance difficulty surely outweighs the
rare situation where the physical->logical assignment changes due to a
broken drive. That's what we've got rescue disks for.
Hear, hear! I never could understand why everyone seems to want to jump onto
that band-wagon.
I have no problem with you saying all this long guid crap makes stuff
unreadable (and yes, I agree, unreadable and unmaintainable aren't that
far different) BUT
> surely outweighs the rare situation where the physical->logical
assignment changes
THAT DEPENDS ON YOUR HARDWARE!
For normal consumer grade hardware, I agree. I've never known it change
unless I've been mucking about with add-in SATA, PATA, whatever cards.
BUT. Especially on big server-grade hardware, where there's lots of trip
switches so stuff doesn't all power up in one huge spike (and I've
worked with such), different parts of the system come up in a completely
random order, and drives re-order themselves pretty much every single boot!
So yes, with our consumer hardware I'd agree with you. But the people
paying big bills for reliable top-range hardware would wonder what
you're smoking!
Cheers,
Wol
