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On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:02:45 +0100 |
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Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 17 September 2011 13:44:39 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > [GUIDs] are not the best thing to work with admittedly, but they are |
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> > guaranteed to be unique for all reasonable human needs. In a world |
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> > when we plug things out of anything and plug them back into |
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> > anything, a guaranteed unique ID is a necessaity. |
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> As I said, I do not expect to move hard disks around willy-nilly in |
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> my boxes, so it certainly isn't a necessity - I don't have an armada |
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> of hundreds of boxes here. And I still haven't seen a compelling |
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> reason not to quote, e.g., /dev/sda3 in fstab. I know where my |
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> partitions are and I want to continue to know that. Call it |
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> control-freakery if you like, but it's at the core of sys-admin (if I |
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> may say that to you, Alan). |
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Well, if you are completely confident you can deal with anything that |
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comes up, you should just continue doing what you've always done. |
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That's part of good sysadmining. |
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I express my own paranoia in a different way :-) |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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