On 22/04/14 12:14, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Jeremy Visser <jeremy@visser.name> writes:
On 21 Apr 2014, at 17:19, Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au> 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.
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