On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 12:03:47PM -0700, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote > >> They have the advantage over UUID's in that you can set them and >> therefore can be human readable. Also, if you use a desktop >> environment, they look nice in file managers. > > I assume that name clashes can be avoided by using hostname-label. My > question is... are there any circumstances where you can use UUIDs but > not labels, or visa versa? If so, I'd prefer to go with the more robust > option from day 1, rather than switch later.
You can use whatever you want whenever you want. They are orthogonal. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
