Package: udev
Version: 0.125
Severity: grave

Hi,
the removal of the /dev/.static/dev/ hack in 0.124-1 breaks labeled
mounts (via LABEL=...) and might leave people with an unbootable system.

Reason is that findfs and friends query /etc/blkid.tab to find the
device matching the UUID. Since blkid.tab has things like
/dev/.static/dev/hda7 (no idea why blkid picked that one in favour of
/dev/hda7) this breaks the mount.

I see three possible solutions:
 * put the hack back in (bad)
or
 * put code into e2fsprogs that updates /etc/blkid.tag and let udev
   conflict on older than that versions of e2fsprogs.
or
 * document that we stop supporting mounts by LABEL=... and people
   should use /dev/disk/by-label/

Cheers,
 -- Guido




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