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Here's a revised possibility -- it diverges a little from the original |
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message but I think its more inclusive as to the issue. |
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Thoughts? |
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Title: Important fstab and localmount update |
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Author: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> |
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Content-Type: text/plain |
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Posted: 2016-10-28 |
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Revision: 1 |
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News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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[rules-that-limits-this-to-openrc-and-udev??] |
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Recent updates to init scripts in OpenRC and (e)udev have removed the |
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requirement for udev to "settle" before it's startup completes. The |
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result of this is that services which used to wait for udev to finish |
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processing all kernel events will now start earlier. One such service |
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is localmount. |
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If "/dev/disk/by-*" source paths for are used for mount points in |
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fstab, then it is possible that udev may not have created those |
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symlinks before localmount starts and tries to mount them. |
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One possible way to address this is to ensure that udev-settle is |
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started before localmount starts, to enforce the old behaviour. This |
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can be done simply by adding it to sysinit the runlevel, or adding an |
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'rc_want=udev-settle' in /etc/conf.d/localmount. |
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The more generic solution is to move away from using "/dev/disk/by-*" |
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source paths and instead convert to using the LABEL= , UUID= , or |
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PARTUUID= syntax in fstab instead. This syntax is supported directly |
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by mount and works regardless of device manager, therefore removing |
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the the dependency of having udev-settle before mounting these paths. |
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More information can be found in the fstab manpage. |
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