<html><head></head><body>UUID is the solution. It's just hard to read.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On April 20, 2021 2:32:30 PM EDT, Phil Turmel via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Well, it has been this way for several years. Good luck getting it <br>classified as a bug.<br><br>Using dynamically allocated names in fstab (and similar) is the bug. It <br>is only "simpler" until it breaks your setup.<br><br>On 4/20/21 9:23 AM, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm quite in the opposite camp. Using devices simplifies support for the <br>base OS. Using LVM is nice when things might move, and you know you'll <br>have a fully operational OS and LVM suite going.<br><br>If a kernel changes the device order, that really seems like a bug.<br><br>On 4/20/21 8:58 AM, Phil Turmel via Ale wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">Under no circumstances should you ever place first-level block device <br>names into your config files (like fstab). Though not likely, any <br>kernel update can change the order. And in some cases, kernel <br>parallelism can mix the sequence from multiple PCI devices. (Also <br></blockquote>not<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">likely, but I've seen it.) Use a LABEL or UUID instead of /dev/sdXY. <br>Names based on LVM group and volume names are fine.<br></blockquote></blockquote><hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool</body></html>