Comment 13 for bug 1061190

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1061190] Re: could not mount /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 M for manual S for skip

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 09:51:42PM -0000, Mark Sweeney wrote:
> I managed to manually fixed this by adding the UUID of the partion to
> fstab, rather than using the file path.

This is not a correct fix, however, as it introduces a race condition since
the UUID will be visible over udev before the path has settled. So you can
get boot failures with this caused by the device appearing, and then moving
to a different name before mountall has a chance to act.