On 01/11/16 04:03 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 14:13:28 -0500
> William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> If "/dev/disk/by-*" source paths are used for mount points in
> 
> s/source/device/. Source sounds weird to me.

device path works, i used 'source' as in the mount source vs the mount
target.

> 
>> 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.
> 

Agreed, thank you!

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