On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 7:01 AM, Roy Bamford <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016.10.25 22:52, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> >> Personally I'd rather see us go the other way, ensure udev settles >> before localmount runs, and maybe ewarn if /dev/disk/by-* is in fstab >> or something. Leave the migration away from these paths to general >> education of system setup, since they technically are valid, just not >> ideal. >> >> > +1 > > Add udev-settle now. > Have an advisory news item that says why its been done and what > users can do if they don't like it or don't need it, and what will happen > long term.
That seems sensible. > At the same time, depreciate the use of udev symlinks in fstab. > > Some time later, remove udev-settle and have another news item. > By now, users will have reacted to the first news item or sympathy > can be minimal. Why ever remove udev-settle, or deprecate the udev symlinks? Is there something wrong with them, other than a bug when you try to mount things before they are created? If anything the udev syntax seems a lot more "standard" since it follows the normal device, mountpoint, etc syntax in fstab. Nothing would prevent users from using the other syntax and removing the settle step if they desire. It just seems odd to not support a fairly standard syntax in OpenRC, unless this is part of some larger trend where udev itself is moving away from it, etc. -- Rich
