Dapper -> Edgy upgrade problem

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:16:31PM -0500, Alex Mauer wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > I'd expect the issues to be the same with RAID regardless of whether you use
> > the UUID or label; in either case they'll be the same.  
> 
> For sure; that was intended as a totally distinct point; I didn't mean
> to imply that using a label instead of a UUID would help that situation.
> 
> > This is an important
> > test case, though, and we'd appreciate your help in ensuring that our
> > solution gets it right.
> 
> And you'll get it.
> 
> Should I add this consideration to LibAtaForAtaDisks?  The only other
> semi-relevant spot seems to be ProbeForRootFilesystem; I'm not sure that
> that is likely to be reviewed by those involved in the switch to UUID
> though.  I could also clean up that page a bit and make it a redirect to
> SwitchToUUID or something similar.  Does this sound good, or is there a
> more appropriate and already-existing place to put it to improve the
> chances of being reviewed by implementors?
> 
> I see that the ProbeForRootFilesystem page says "LABEL are more prone to
> clashing and this idea has been discarded at BOF" according to
> FabioMassimoDiNitto; this is disappointing, as labels are far more
> user-friendly.

This change has now landed in Edgy; is it doing the right thing for you?

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 - mdz