On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 05:06:02PM +0100, Silvio Knizek wrote: > Am Dienstag, dem 06.02.2024 um 16:15 +0100 schrieb Thomas HUMMEL: > > Hello, > >=20 > > I'm using systemd-239-74 on RHEL 8.8 EUS. > >=20 > > I was wondering if one can express the following : > >=20 > > start some service *only and only if/when* all remote mounts (ex: nfs,= > =20 > > some parallel fs) has *succeeded*, taking into account it may take some= > =20 > > time for some mount (some fs clients just live curl | sh themselves at= > =20 > > start !) to finish (which seems to exlude usage of=20 > > AssertPathIsMountPoint for instance, as it would not wait, or would it ?) > >=20 > > I have no auto option in the fstab for those fs and they use the _netdev= > =20 > > option > >=20 > > Obvisouly I could statically list all the mounts units as an ordering=20 > > dependency but this is not what I was looking for as there are namy (and= > =20 > > I'm not even sure - see below - it it would be enough) > >=20 > > Exploring this question I stumbled upon the following points : > >=20 > > my understanding is that: > >=20 > > 1. remote-fs.target special target is pulled in by multi-user.target and= > =20 > > is added by systemd-fstab-generator as a Before=3D ordering dep to all= > =20 > > remote .mount units > >=20 > > -> I also see a remote-fs.target has a Requires=3D<remote-mounts>=20 > > activation dep : I probably missed it in the doc but I don't see this=20 > > listed in neither implicit nor default dep : where does it come from ? > >=20 > > 2. Before=3D/After=3D refer, in the case of service units, to when the un= > it=20 > > has "finished starting up", this being defined by "when it returns=20 > > failed or success", which is dependent of the Type=3D of the service > >=20 > > Is this understanding correct ? > >=20 > > But when the unit is of type mount : what's the semantic of Before/After= > =20 > > ? (I don't think I saw it in the doc neither) > >=20 > > What's the meaning/use of Type=3Dnone in a .mount unit ? > >=20 > > My experience is that the mount may fail and remote-fs.target will still= > =20 > > be reached, even if one replace Requires with BindsTo, correct ? > >=20 > > So success or failure of the mount process does not seem to be involved= > =20 > > in the ordering dep, or does it ? > >=20 > > Thanks for your help > > Hi Thomas, > > RequiresMountsFor=3D should be your friend. It just takes a space- > separated list of paths and does all the other stuff by itself. > > Another options would be to switch to x-systemd.automount in fstab for > the network shares, so they will be mounted on first access, not > necessary during early boot when there is no network.
FYI, it looks like your mailer used quoted-printable encoding, but didn’t set the appropriate headers to indicate that this encoding is in use. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) Invisible Things Lab
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