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[Daniel O'Connor]

On 26/04/2011, at 1:31, Warner Losh wrote:
>> This is why I prefer IDs since they are nominally unique (UFS ones, GPTs damn well better be :)
>> 
>> Although I concede it is rather annoying to work out which is which, or type them out manually..
> 
> For things like ZFS, UUIDs aren't so bad because it hides them.

Yes, I use GPT with ZFS, it's good :)

> For things like /etc/fstab, I prefer the named approach.  This allows me to survive a newfs on a partition if I have to without having to hack my /etc/fstab.  I have a large /tmp partition at times, and it gets newfs'd if there's a bad problem...

Yeah, but..
IMHO if the installer supports it then it is dramatically less painful..

I haven't looked to see how hard it is to add, hopefully I will get some time to look RSN and it shouldn't be too difficult.

FWIW the above shell snippet is found in a post [sys]install shell script I used for 6.x and later so it has had a bit of testing.

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