Am 07.04.2015 um 19:40 schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
On Tuesday 2015-04-07 19:26, ellanios82 wrote:
- perhaps , make an exception , and not to use
UUIDs for swap ::
for instance ::
/dev/sdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
This is so bad a joke it's not even funny.
/dev/sd* are in the class of the most unstable names you can possibly /get.
No, actually not. In "normal" setups (no multipath, fancy storage etc), all disks are /dev/sd* The only exception is KVM Virtualization if people still use the (old, featureless, not useful) virtio-blk instead of the (better, newer, more features) virtio-scsi. The solution there: use virtio-scsi, and disks are again /dev/sd*. And in normal setups, people do usually not reconfigure their built-in disks every day to cause sda->sdc changes, and if they do, they can still choose boot-by-whatever to make this painless. Actually everything but /dev/sdX has been a major PITA, because it has been eiter unstable or not usabe for humans. /dev/disk/by-uuid: seriously, this is for machines, not for humans. /dev/disk/by-id: *not* stable. scsi-1ATA vs scsi-SATA vs ata- anyone? /dev/disk/by-path: *not* stable, at least with virtualization /dev/disk/by-label: *not* unique, better not plug in your old disk in an USB case, I use it anyway but know the pitfalls /dev/sd*: just works most of the time, in standard setups. -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org