> It seems based on the release notes that this is part of the 6.0 install. I > installed 5.9 just before the 6.0 release and then did an upgrade and do > not see that modification made in /etc/fstab post upgrade.
The upgrade script cannot do everything. If we made it do everything, the coding of it would become incredible fragile, and you'd end up with a worse upgrade process. Therefore some details are left for the human.