Hello, On 2023-10-26 22:26, Michael Hamilton wrote:
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Using /dev/sd* in fstab is broken for years. So anyone using that should be forced to fix it for good and not find workarounds. Or am I missing something?
Right. It hasn't been actually stable for decades, and this has been communicated extensively. *It's still discouraged to refer to any device by its device node name*. Nothing has changed in this respect.
I think some care is is waranted...
In principle, /dev/sd* has not been stable for decades, but in practice, for many, especially those with simple desktops, it's been stable since the beginning.
Not only "simple desktops" but also zillions of "simple virtual machines" where the admin knows "for sure" that "the only disk" is /dev/sda. In practice it causes "interesting user experience" when booting from USB disk results that this one becomes /dev/sda and the system disk becomes /dev/sdb. In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. I think the difference here is what should be used in persistent config files (so /dev/sda in fstab is bad) versus what users and admins are used to use when they "just do something", for example typing device names when calling command line tools. I do very much appreciate it to not needlessly cause annoyance for users and admins out there in practice. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Frankenstr. 146 - 90461 Nuernberg - Germany GF: Ivo Totev, Andrew McDonald, Werner Knoblich (HRB 36809, AG Nuernberg)