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On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 14:36 -0400, Aristeu Rozanski wrote:
> also, heard about the desire of having a device namespace instead with
> support for translation ("sda" -> "sdf"). If anyone see immediate use for
> this please let me know.

That sounds like a really bad idea to me.  We've spent ages training
users that the actual sd<x> name of their device doesn't matter and they
should use UUIDs or WWNs instead ... why should they now care inside
containers?

James