On Jan 13, 2014, at 1:18 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > I use GPT partitioning (instead of MBR) for better fault tolerance and > flexibility here, too, Off topic but related to above, you might find it vaguely interesting/annoying in that the current kernel behavior actually makes GPT less reliable than MBR because it face plants if it finds a problem with the primary GPT, rather than use the backup: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63591 > and it has partition names/labels which can be > used in fstab, too. I use the same label and partlabel scheme, with the > filesystem label generally reflecting the partlabel(s) it's created on, > however, so it doesn't really matter which I use, except that PARTLABEL= > is longer in fstab, so I use the shorter LABEL=, instead. While considering how to make Btrfs snapshots bootable in a sane manner over on grub-devel@, I'm finding that fstab is almost entirely obsolete and we need a more dynamic approach. Any rootfs snapshot contains a wrong fstab. So it's almost like we need a revamped format that enables some entries to be static and others to be 2nd guessed/dynamically altered, so that the right subvolumes are mounted rather than prior ones. Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html