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On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 1:15 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 01:10:06PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 1:01 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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>> > If you are not using /dev/disk/by-* paths in fstab, you do not need to |
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>> take any action for this news item. |
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>> > |
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>> > If you are, it is very critical that you update fstab AS SOON AS |
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>> POSSIBLE. Your system will become unbootable in the future if you do |
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>> not do so. |
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>> Err, what is changing that will make systems unbootable? |
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>> I am fairly certain systems running systemd will continue to work |
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>> properly with either syntax. |
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> They probably will. |
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>> If this is about the udev-settle issue for OpenRC, I would urge you to |
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>> reconsider that. |
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> There isn't anything to reconsider afaik. The problem is that |
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> /dev/disk/by-* are only created by udev/eudev, but the other syntax |
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> works regardless of which device manager you use, so this is the safer |
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> route. |
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People do not randomly switch device managers. If the symlinks |
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currently work for them, they can/should continue to work in the |
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future. |
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