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