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On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 2:44 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 02:14:43PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 1:53 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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>> > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 01:30:56PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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>> >> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>> >> > On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 12:52 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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>> >> >> |
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>> >> >> here is the new version of this news item. |
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>> >> >> |
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>> >> > |
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>> >> > Shouldn't this be conditional based on openrc being installed? I |
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>> >> > don't think other rc implementations are impacted. |
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>> >> > |
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>> >> |
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>> >> +1 |
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>> >> |
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>> >> It would also be nice if the title had "OpenRC" in it, so that people |
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>> >> booting with systemd can more easily ignore it. |
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>> > |
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>> > Well, this is sort of a gray area, because the recommendation to use the |
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>> > new fstab syntax is in the fstab man page as well as being in the newest |
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>> > baselayout example fstab, so it really applies everywhere [1]. |
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>> > |
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>> The man page does not suggest that this is a preference over using |
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>> udev device names. It only says they're preferred over the |
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>> traditional device names which are subject to change, which is |
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>> obviously good advice. |
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>> |
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>> It makes sense that they wouldn't mention udev device names since |
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>> those are udev-specific. It doesn't mention recommendations for lvm |
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>> either, which makes sense since that would be udev-specific most |
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>> likely. |
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> I was wrong in the man page I mentioned. Check out the mount man page. |
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> I don't see there where it says that tags are only preferred over |
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> traditional device names. |
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> But, it is sort of unclear I suppose. It says that the preferred |
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> setup is the tags (UUID=, LABEL=, etc, but in the same paragraph it says |
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> that mount internally uses the udev symlinks if they are there. What it |
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> doesn't explain is what mount does if they aren't there, but I know it |
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> does work either way. |
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Well, considering that it goes on to say that it just uses the udev |
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names anyway, I'd say that the result is the same either way. |
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It seems that the mount manpage authors seem to prefer the UUID= |
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syntax and so on. I don't think systemd even runs the mount binary; I |
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believe it just uses the system calls. So, I don't think it is really |
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all that relevant. |
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Rich |
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