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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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>>> 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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> William |
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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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Gentoo/MIPS |
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6144R/F5C6C943 2015-04-27 |
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"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And |
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our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." |
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