UUIDs on drives

ghe ghe at slsware.com
Thu Aug 14 22:56:53 UTC 2008


Derek Broughton wrote:

> No, somebody had the brilliant idea of using a single piece of code to
> handle block devices where there used to be many different implementations.

That's a great idea. But there's no reason to break the labeling. They 
could still do the dynamic tricks for USB sticks and the like, but the 
disks were working just fine. No need to fix them.

> "Feature"?  I'm not sure anybody's ever going to change Grub...

I'm not either. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could just get rid of the
BIOS -- that's the real root of the problem.

-- 
Glenn English
ghe at slsware.com





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