Using biosdevname by default?

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:17:03AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 04:23:53PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 01:50:19AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > >  2) At UDS, consider defaulting to biosdevname=1 for 12.10.  Presumably
> > >     by that point we would have reasonably substantial experience with
> > >     it as a result of 1).
> 
> > biosdevname is now enabled by default on 12.10 alternate/server
> > installs.  This will cause some machines to use different (and more
> > stable across reboots) network interface names.
> 
> Thanks, Colin!
> 
> Are we expecting this to be enabled for the desktop image as well, for
> consistency?

I'm not sure about this, and would welcome thoughts.  On the one hand,
consistency is valuable.  On the other hand, I would expect the benefit
on typical desktop systems to be much less, and the change undeniably
has a cost; it's not clear to me that the trade-off makes sense on the
desktop.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]