Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

[Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>]

Frans Pop wrote:
> I will not deny that users _can_ hit this issue, but it has been a known 
> issue since Sarge. Unfortunately no one has yet been able to help us find 
> a "good enough for Debian" solution for this.
...
> Personally I also feel that all possible solutions effectively make
> /etc/fstab unreadable and unmaintainable. Maybe Debian should lead the way 
> to make /etc/fstab a generated file (like e.g. modules.conf used to
> be).

One potential workaround for anyone running into this issue might be
to create the root disk as a 1-disk RAID1, and then it should (?) get
mounted by RAID UUID at boot.

-jim