On 22/04/14 12:14, Trent W. Buck wrote: > Jeremy Visser <[email protected]> writes: > >> On 21 Apr 2014, at 17:19, Carl Turney <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Want to disable UUID, and address hardware directly by device and >>> partition specs. >> >> Hmm. >> >>> My knowledge is low. (Barely understand what I'm writing.) >> >> Hmmmmm. >> >> There benefits of UUIDs outweighs the disadvantages for the majority of >> users. Given your own admission of a lack of knowledge, what makes you sure >> you want to second guess what is a very sane default made by technically >> capable decision-makers? >> >> You have every right to shoot yourself in the foot, so I won’t stop you, but >> I’m curious why you want to do so. > > +1. > > The biggest reason for this is decreased determinism in module loading > order -- e.g. at least *in theory* it might load USB, then PATA, then > SATA one boot, then next boot it loads SATA then USB then PATA. >
A "*in theory*" that I experienced quite frequently not so long ago, not exactly in the sequence above, but /dev/sda and /dev/sdb frequently interchanged. If UUID are hard to deal with, ie: readability, LABEL may be an alternative. If my memory is right, OpenSUSE uses Labels instead of UUIDs. Daniel. > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list A *in theory* that I have experienced quite frequently > [email protected] > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main > _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
