On 26/04/2011, at 1:31, Warner Losh wrote: >> This is why I prefer IDs since they are nominally unique (UFS ones, GPTs >> damn well better be :) >> >> Although I concede it is rather annoying to work out which is which, or type >> them out manually.. > > For things like ZFS, UUIDs aren't so bad because it hides them.
Yes, I use GPT with ZFS, it's good :) > For things like /etc/fstab, I prefer the named approach. This allows me to > survive a newfs on a partition if I have to without having to hack my > /etc/fstab. I have a large /tmp partition at times, and it gets newfs'd if > there's a bad problem... Yeah, but.. IMHO if the installer supports it then it is dramatically less painful.. I haven't looked to see how hard it is to add, hopefully I will get some time to look RSN and it shouldn't be too difficult. FWIW the above shell snippet is found in a post [sys]install shell script I used for 6.x and later so it has had a bit of testing. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
