Re: udev: what does it used for in Debian?
>>>>> Ben Hutchings <email@example.com> writes:
>>>>> On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 22:12 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>> BTW, does the root=UUID= variant require udev as well?
> Yes, currently the kernel filesystem code does not probe for filesystem
> UUIDs. (However, it does support partition UUIDs as used in GPT. You
> can use root=PARTUUID= to select from those.
> But I doubt you're using a GPT.)
Actually, I do. CHS addressing (as used in MBR, even if along
with LBA) seems to me a bit obsolete (for at least a decade),
thus I've moved to use GPT for all the new media almost as soon
as I've discovered it.
Sometimes, I have to use gptsync(8), though.
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