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 1RAv1o-0004X3-Ub for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:46:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8AD921C082; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 02:46:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5B2E21C049 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 02:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf19 with SMTP id 19so38110wyf.40 for ; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:45:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=30aaCpGbbmdj10x/biMXf6F8RLtimwwa0S18JxpUweQ=; b=YMZJqunRmiaeUnfi6AKmj3WzP7OnRN6LOcvQOOFb5A30bRjggWpipHp931USItT/nO demcoGi01D21DtCjAAbS4CKy0peBwAxd32ZN+08g04wzSEXFGZ8rcYc1aa6E1BJVmlBX dsDbHTUT8JLFF4dUpTDnAdpP9/sfCmEhWDV8c= 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 Received: by 10.216.133.219 with SMTP id q69mr704532wei.79.1317696330815; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:45:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.132.80 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:45:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20111004022532.GC3367@waltdnes.org> References: <20111004022532.GC3367@waltdnes.org> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:45:30 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order. From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f44f2fe6d055a843e01e68ccbda66944 On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > 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. > > =C2=A0I assume that name clashes can be avoided by using hostname-label. = =C2=A0My > question is... are there any circumstances where you can use UUIDs but > not labels, or visa versa? =C2=A0If so, I'd prefer to go with the more ro= bust > option from day 1, rather than switch later. You can use whatever you want whenever you want. They are orthogonal. Regards. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico