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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 11:13:56
Message-Id: CAGfcS_keNsuZHsSG9ZzsuCRz9AYFvGdyF3w5ivKjKhqoDMAxnw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update by Roy Bamford
1 On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 7:01 AM, Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote:
2 > On 2016.10.25 22:52, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
3 >>
4 >> Personally I'd rather see us go the other way, ensure udev settles
5 >> before localmount runs, and maybe ewarn if /dev/disk/by-* is in fstab
6 >> or something. Leave the migration away from these paths to general
7 >> education of system setup, since they technically are valid, just not
8 >> ideal.
9 >>
10 >>
11 > +1
12 >
13 > Add udev-settle now.
14 > Have an advisory news item that says why its been done and what
15 > users can do if they don't like it or don't need it, and what will happen
16 > long term.
17
18
19 That seems sensible.
20
21 > At the same time, depreciate the use of udev symlinks in fstab.
22 >
23 > Some time later, remove udev-settle and have another news item.
24 > By now, users will have reacted to the first news item or sympathy
25 > can be minimal.
26
27 Why ever remove udev-settle, or deprecate the udev symlinks? Is there
28 something wrong with them, other than a bug when you try to mount
29 things before they are created?
30
31 If anything the udev syntax seems a lot more "standard" since it
32 follows the normal device, mountpoint, etc syntax in fstab.
33
34 Nothing would prevent users from using the other syntax and removing
35 the settle step if they desire. It just seems odd to not support a
36 fairly standard syntax in OpenRC, unless this is part of some larger
37 trend where udev itself is moving away from it, etc.
38
39 --
40 Rich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>