On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:22:00 Rick Moen wrote:
I wrote:
Well, if I've been treading on thin ice, it's been holding since 1983. ;-> (Yes, I really _have_ been running Linux systems since then. Time flies when you're having fun.)
It's late in the time zone where I am, I'm tired after a very long day at work, and I really need to more carefully proofread before I post.
The intended reference was to _1993_.
You haven't been using GRUB nearly that long. Also the development of libata and SATA disks are much more recent. Yes things can work with direct names for the simpler cases. Also for most of the more complex cases you should probably be using hardware RAID (which generally gives a simpler naming that is fixed such as /dev/cciss/c0d0whatever) or a combination of software RAID (that does UUIDs internally) and LVM (with LVM names NOT UUIDs which break with snapshots as previously noted). Probably the best case for UUIDs is when using BTRFS as you have RAID, volume management, and the filesystem all combined. The other good case for UUIDs is having multiple disks that aren't part of RAID arrays, which is fairly common. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/