[systemd-devel] [HEADS-UP] Discoverable Partitions Spec

Goffredo Baroncelli kreijack at libero.it
Mon Mar 10 11:59:23 PDT 2014


Hi Kay
On 03/10/2014 07:53 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:
[...]
>>
>> Instead of relying on the subvolume UUID, why not relying to the subvolume name: it would be more simple and flexible to manage them.
> 
> As a general rule: human-readable names should be left to the
> administrator, provide an identifier for humans, and should not be
> overloaded with magic machine behavior.

In general I agree with you. 
But using "a name" you can manage multiple system on the same filesystem. This is impossible with the UUID.

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