On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:09:49AM +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:50:37 Holger Levsen wrote:
> > ah! thanks for summarizing why this is not a bug, but rather a feature
> > (UUIDs
> > for partitions) made for this situation not being used!
>
> For the record about a year ago when I tried to use UUID for
> external journal on ext4 it didn't work because (I think) it was not
> implemented.
> Probably it still doesn't work although I could miss something in recent
> changelogs.
>
> Although UUID is very useful for partitions I didn't mention UUID because I
> knew it wouldn't work for ext4 external journal.
>
>
> > see eg http://wiki.debian.org/Part-UUID or debian-u...@lists.debian.org for
> > more info.
>
> Thanks for the link.
>
> Cheers,
> Dmitry Smirnov
> GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B
If UUID doesn't work then I think you are left with LVM as the only
option to get a reliable device name.
MfG
Goswin
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