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From: "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@×××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 01:19:00
Message-Id: 5810040F.8080201@iee.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update by William Hubbs
1 On 25/10/16 18:27, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 06:07:51PM +0100, James Le Cuirot wrote:
3 >> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:01:06 -0500
4 >> William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> this item is about an important fstab update. In short, people need to
7 >>> move away from /dev/disk-by/* in their fstab vfiles.
8 >> "Inportant" typo in the title.
9 >>
10 >> Even before you posted this, I was wondering why this is a problem now?
11 > This was changed in baselayout git years ago [1], and someone hit a race
12 > condition caused by not making the changes in their fstab [2].
13 >
14 > The "new" syntax is device-manager agnostic, and supported by both
15 > util-linux and busybox, so imo it is the best route to take.
16 >
17 > William
18 >
19 > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496562
20 > [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596346
21 +2

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