Re: [PATCH 0/2] make automatic device_id generation possible

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (03/05/15 13:02), Karel Zak wrote:
> > hm, you never know what people can come up with. that's probably the
> > strongest support argument I can provide. I wish there was something
> > like - my friend Mike has a "device /dev/zram1 is always swap device,
> > device /dev/zram$(id -u) is a per-user zram device (he finds it useful,
> 
> I have doubts that promise stable device names is good idea. The usual
> way is to care about FS/SWAP identifiers (LABEL=, or UUID=), and for
> example udevd should be able to create a stable /dev/disk/by-*
> symlinks.
> 
> So for your friend Mike is better to have UUID= in /etc/fstab and
> force mkswap or mkfs to use still the same UUID.

+1 for removal from Karel.
thanks.

	-ss
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