Re: Disk naming (Was Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Guestbootloadersupp

Rumor has it that on Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 11:02:11PM +0100 Ian Pratt said:
> > Keeping it working in the short-term while people want to do 
> > this might be reasonable, but if they're doing the Right (tm) 
> > thing and mounting by label or uuid, it doesn't matter what 
> > the device is.  And I think that medium term, there are going 
> > to be plenty of other changes needed for going from a native 
> > system to an unprivileged guests.  

Be careful with mount by label in a virtualized environment. When it 
becomes easy to move disks from one system to another labels can be a 
real pain.

How would uuid work for the current block devices in guests?

Cheers,
Phil



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