RPi needs a better way to mount USB flash

[christroutner]

The current scheme is to use the /etc/fstab file in order to mount the USB flash drive on boot. This is a sketchy way of mounting the flash drive as any hiccup with stop the Pi from booting and will effectively brick it.

The scope of this issue is to find a better way to mount the flash drive after the OS has finished booting. Some scheme that is more fault tolerant and can report a status to the server like 'Flash drive could not be mounted!'.

[christroutner]

This may also have been fixed. I believe the devices are not being mounted by their local device name like /dev/sda1 instead of their UUID. The UUID addressing was causing the issue.