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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - Easier management of mount targets as dependencies of services"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87323">87323</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Easier management of mount targets as dependencies of services
          </td>
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>systemd
          </td>
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
          </td>
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>x86-64 (AMD64)
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Linux (All)
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
          </td>
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>enhancement
          </td>
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>medium
          </td>
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>general
          </td>
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>stephen@redhat.com
          </td>
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          <th>QA Contact</th>
          <td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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        <pre>Let's say I have a service target called 'pulp_celerybeat' that requires some
content from the /var/lib/pulp directory in order to start.  

This directory contains RPM content (and quite a lot of it), so users may want
to move this to a network share.

When I do, this service no longer starts because it can happen that
/var/lib/pulp isn't mounted.

I've fixed this by creating:
  /etc/systemd/system/pulp_celerybeat.service.d/amendments.conf

With:
  [Unit]
  RequireMountsFor=/var/lib/pulp

Easy enough.

But systemd knows about all the mount targets.  It also knows that
pulp_celerybeat uses /var/lib/pulp by this in the unit file:

  [Service]
  WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/pulp/celery/

Would it be possible to do this dependency management automatically?

Alternatively, supporting some directive like "RequiresDir" that we could ship
in the packaged unit files would be useful, so if a user does move our storage
to a network share, systemd would set the right mount dependencies
automatically.</pre>
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