From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266150AbTLIUmg (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:42:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266152AbTLIUmg (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:42:36 -0500 Received: from aun.it.uu.se ([130.238.12.36]:3505 "EHLO aun.it.uu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266150AbTLIUmc (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:42:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16342.13236.198024.714840@alkaid.it.uu.se> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 21:42:28 +0100 From: Mikael Pettersson To: Ian Soboroff Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: cdrecord hangs my computer In-Reply-To: <9cfiskqjb99.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov> References: <20031207110122.GB13844@zombie.inka.de> <200312081753.hB8HrQfD019477@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <200312081940.hB8Je8fD023223@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <9cfiskqjb99.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ian Soboroff writes: > Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes: > > > The stuff that supports LABEL= on a partition is a *partial* > > solution to decouple the name of the device as the system found it > > from a logical name, but as many have noted, it has its own issues. > > Yes, labels and UUIDs are great for those of us with lots of SCSI > devices, so that adding a controller or changing a cable doesn't > require _two_ boots (one to figure out where everything went and edit > /etc/fstab, one for real). > > I wish I could LABEL swap partitions. In March 2001 I posted a patch for util-linux to support that: http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/swap-label/swap-label-patch-2001-03-15 There was only minor interest in the thing, so I've not pursued it any further.