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From: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] cgroup TODOs
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On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 09:19:17AM +0100, James Bottomley wrote:
> 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?

True, bad example on my part. The use case I had in mind when I wrote that
can be solved by symbolic links.

-- 
Aristeu