On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 07:13:48 -0400 Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. The reliance on udev-settle doesn't follow the long-term Gentoo policy of being blazing impossibly fast. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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