[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#653073: why root filesystem reported as /dev/disk/by-uuid/ long name starting today?

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

23:43 ~$ cat /etc/mtab
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
udev /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=248048k,nr_inodes=62012,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=50564k,mode=755 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/551e44e1-2cad-42cf-a716-f2e6caf9dc78 / ext3 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=333,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=101128k 0 0
tmpfs /run/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=101128k 0 0
/dev/sda6 /home ext3 rw,noatime,errors=continue,commit=333,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda7 /var ext3 rw,noatime,errors=continue,commit=333,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda8 /usr ext3 rw,noatime,errors=continue,commit=333,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda9 /var/cache/wwwoffle ext3 rw,noatime,errors=continue,commit=333,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda10 /music ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,errors=continue,commit=333,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sdg2 /mnt/usb/cf ext3 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
$ ll /etc/mtab
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 12-23 22:00 /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts