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Title: Inportant fstab and localmount update Author: William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> Author: Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2016-11-04 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Recent updates to service 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 are used for mount points in fstab, it is possible that those symbolic links will not exist when localmount starts and attempts to mount them. One way to address this is to enforce the old behaviour by insuring that udev-settle completes successfully before localmount starts. This can be done by adding rc_need="dev-settle" to /etc/conf.d/localmount. The disadvantage of this is that dev-settle can fail, and if it does, localmount will not start. The upstream preferred solution is to convert fstab from using "/dev/disk/by-*" to the LABEL=, UUID=, or PARTUUID= syntax. This syntax is supported directly by both util-linux and busybox's mount commands and has no dependency on any device manager. More information on this syntax can be found in the fstab man page.
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