On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 2:44 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 02:14:43PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 1:53 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 01:30:56PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> >> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 12:52 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> >> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> here is the new version of this news item. >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > Shouldn't this be conditional based on openrc being installed? I >> >> > don't think other rc implementations are impacted. >> >> > >> >> >> >> +1 >> >> >> >> It would also be nice if the title had "OpenRC" in it, so that people >> >> booting with systemd can more easily ignore it. >> > >> > Well, this is sort of a gray area, because the recommendation to use the >> > new fstab syntax is in the fstab man page as well as being in the newest >> > baselayout example fstab, so it really applies everywhere [1]. >> > >> >> The man page does not suggest that this is a preference over using >> udev device names. It only says they're preferred over the >> traditional device names which are subject to change, which is >> obviously good advice. >> >> It makes sense that they wouldn't mention udev device names since >> those are udev-specific. It doesn't mention recommendations for lvm >> either, which makes sense since that would be udev-specific most >> likely. > > I was wrong in the man page I mentioned. Check out the mount man page. > I don't see there where it says that tags are only preferred over > traditional device names. > But, it is sort of unclear I suppose. It says that the preferred > setup is the tags (UUID=, LABEL=, etc, but in the same paragraph it says > that mount internally uses the udev symlinks if they are there. What it > doesn't explain is what mount does if they aren't there, but I know it > does work either way.
Well, considering that it goes on to say that it just uses the udev names anyway, I'd say that the result is the same either way. It seems that the mount manpage authors seem to prefer the UUID= syntax and so on. I don't think systemd even runs the mount binary; I believe it just uses the system calls. So, I don't think it is really all that relevant. -- Rich
