mounting per serial number or UUID (was: Re: AHCI driver update - initial PM support in.)

Thu Jun 11 10:44:35 PDT 2009

Matthew Dillon wrote:
    We also really, really need to start making the device mounts available
    by disk serial number as the probe ordering will change the 'daXXX'
    assigned to any given drive, but that's another issue.
I think we should have that in any case, and devfs should make this really 
easy.

However I think we should also consider mounting via UUID/labels instead 
of device node.  What I mean is that file systems assign a label or UUID, 
and on mount they could scan all available block devices for (a) 
containing this type of file system and (b) having that UUID.

cheers
  simon
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