On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 14:13:28 -0500
William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> If "/dev/disk/by-*" source paths are used for mount points in

s/source/device/. Source sounds weird to me.

> fstab, it is possible that those symbolic links  will not exist when
> localmount starts and attempts to mount them.
> To force the old behaviour, you can add rc_want="dev-settle" to
> /etc/conf.d/localmount or add udev-settle to the sysinit runlevel.

I would move this to the end, to indicate this is not the recommended
solution.

> The preferred solution is to convert fstab from using

s/preferred/recommended/

> "/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 and mount man pages.

fstab(5), mount(1). It is common to use the (n) part when listing
manpages.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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