[ale] fstab question

[Jeff Hubbs]

Because Gentoo uses udev to facilitate persistent naming, this isn't 
much of an issue...I've been using hd, sd, and md devices/partitions for 
years and have never had anything get flipped.

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 14:24, Sean <kilpatms at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> Why not use /sda2, /sda3, and /sda4?
>>>       
>> Because some (probably lonely under-sexed pale-skinned
>> mothers-basement-living) individual thought that all Debian/Ubnutu
>> desktop systems should have all the same software configurations as
>> powerful backend servers.  For presumably the same reasons you get
>> Bluetooth, NetworkManager (with PPP, GSM, etc), Avahi, etc on your
>> Debian/Ubuntu Server installs.
>>
>> -Jim P.
>>     
>
> /dev/sda2, etc. quit being best practice a couple years ago for ALL
> distros I believe.
>
> Upgraded installs will keep their old /dev/sda2 style mounts, but new
> installs will not.
>
> The issue is that /dev/sda just means it was the first drive found
> during the drive probing process.
>
> In order to accelerate the boot process, disk drives are now probed
> simultaneously so in some systems they change names on each reboot.
>
> Also the modprobe order changes the /dev/sda names.  Boot from a live
> CD could change the names.
>
> Anyway, the distros finally acknowledged that /dev/sda names are
> unreliable and starting using mount by label or mount by uuid as the
> defaults.
>
> grub even has some support this as well.  (It may take grub 2 to get support).
>
> Greg
>