> To rule that out, I wondered about using /root/by-id/multipath-uuid-<uuid>,
> for example -- or anything that doesn't mean anything more than a symlink,
> that could hit the UUID interpretation bug I suspected.
Yes; I don't think we should be overloading the behavior of UUID= since that is meant to be a uuid. I think it's preferable to point to /dev/disk/by-id/multipath-<uuid> (assuming that's the link that we're creating).
> To rule that out, I wondered about using /root/by- id/multipath- uuid-<uuid> ,
> for example -- or anything that doesn't mean anything more than a symlink,
> that could hit the UUID interpretation bug I suspected.
Yes; I don't think we should be overloading the behavior of UUID= since that is meant to be a uuid. I think it's preferable to point to /dev/disk/ by-id/multipath -<uuid> (assuming that's the link that we're creating).