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