On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 06:07:51PM +0100, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:01:06 -0500
> William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > this item is about an important fstab update. In short, people need to
> > move away from /dev/disk-by/* in their fstab vfiles.
> 
> "Inportant" typo in the title.
> 
> Even before you posted this, I was wondering why this is a problem now?

This was changed in baselayout git years ago [1], and someone hit a race
condition caused by not making the changes in their fstab [2].

The "new" syntax is device-manager agnostic, and supported by both
util-linux and busybox, so imo it is the best route to take.

William

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496562
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596346

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