Sorting disks by label is a bad default
Bug #1906632 reported by
Henry Farnsworth
This bug affects 1 person
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Bug Description
If I'm reading the source correctly[1], the disks list is currently sorted by label. Since the content of the label is completely arbitrary I think this is a poor default to sort on.
For virtio disk you may work around this by manipulating the disk serial, but still I think this is a poor way to sort the list.
I'd say sorting by kernel name, or even pci path would be more predictable.
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Well we sort by label because we display the label as the primary way of identifying the drive, although I agree the label can be inscrutable at times. Sorting by some field that isn't shown seems worse though.