From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RAuiI-00012G-Hi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:26:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB93121C0FB; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 02:26:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 218FB21C088 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 02:25:32 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ap0HAIRtik7O+K8N/2dsb2JhbABCmTSOT4EGgVMBAQQBOhwfCQsLNBIUJTeHe7gnhkBhBJkUh2WERA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.68,482,1312171200"; d="scan'208";a="139823906" Received: from 206-248-175-13.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([206.248.175.13]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 03 Oct 2011 22:25:30 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:25:32 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 22:25:32 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order. Message-ID: <20111004022532.GC3367@waltdnes.org> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 340a588ba4a9c3884ece5b81d268278e On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 12:03:47PM -0700, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote > They have the advantage over UUID's in that you can set them and > therefore can be human readable. Also, if you use a desktop > environment, they look nice in file managers. I assume that name clashes can be avoided by using hostname-label. My question is... are there any circumstances where you can use UUIDs but not labels, or visa versa? If so, I'd prefer to go with the more robust option from day 1, rather than switch later. -- Walter Dnes