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On 10/26/2016 01:49 AM, Joshua Kinard wrote: |
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> On 10/25/2016 13:15, William Hubbs 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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>>> |
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>>> Err, what is changing that will make systems unbootable? |
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>>> |
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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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>> |
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>> They probably will. |
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>> |
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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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>> |
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>> William |
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>> |
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> |
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> I take it us museum relics still using jurassic-era device names like |
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> /dev/sd* or /dev/md* aren't affected by this? Cthulhu-forbid Linux device |
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> naming gets any more complicated than using UUID's. What's next, saving the |
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> serial numbers of discovered disks in an overly-complicated key/value-based |
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> non-SQL database format? |
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> |
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Stop, you'll give them ideas! :P |
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