On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu wrote:
But 'breakage' and 'bugginess' are not synonyms; something can be broken for a corner case but not be a bug in the general sense. Is the current filesystem mounting standard broken? In certain use cases most certainly. Is the current filesystem mounting standard buggy? For the targeted use cases probably not.
I think the first incarnation of the 'labels in fstab' that I saw would have died a horrible death if you did a dual boot install with 2 copies of it, something that should have been planned as a normal use case. That might have been a fedora version though, and I'm not sure what happens in that case now.
After all, upstream developers and CentOS builders all operate within finite resource limits; it takes infinite resources to reach perfection.
But there are only 2 hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors. (Hmmm, can't find the right attribution for that now).