Bug#612402: upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 04:01:25PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:

> UUIDs are used by default AFAICS when the installer creates the
> fstab, and should work just fine.  Just looking and I don't have
> an example system which uses UUIDs /and/ LVM root, however--this
> does not appear to be the default for LVM.  While this is an
> important issue, the fact that it's not hit by default might be
> one reason for lowering the severity.

They are not used by default for filesystems on LVM, because LVM volume
names are already unique identifiers and fs UUIDs are *not* due to
snapshotting.

So the patch here may or may not be appropriate to apply, but in no case
should you be referencing LVM volumes by UUID on /etc/fstab.

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