[systemd-devel] systemd and archlinux: questions

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 09.05.10 23:12, Kay Sievers (kay.sievers at vrfy.org) wrote:

> 
> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 22:57, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 09.05.10 22:42, Marius O (marius at habarnam.ro) wrote:
> >
> >> > Every local mount in /etc/fstab will be added as a dependency to
> >> > local-fs.target, and every remote mount to remote-fs.target.
> >>
> >> "Will be added" or "Should be added" ? Because as it is now, with
> >> vanilla local-fs.target I don't even get a / mounted properly, ie.
> >> it's mounted readonly.
> >
> > *Will* be added. There are a number of special units in systemd. And
> > local-fs.target and remote-fs.target are two of them: everything in
> > /etc/fstab is added to one of the two. The other special units are
> > listed in manager.h. One of those days we should document them all and
> > in which way they are special.
> >
> > systemd only tracks mounts as a binary thing for the dependency tree,
> > i.e. mounted XOR unmounted. There is no distinction between rdwr and
> > ro. If you want remount / during bootupt then write a service for it
> > that simply calls "/bin/mount / -o rw,remount" or so.
> 
> We should probably always re-apply all options from fstab. Also /proc,
> /dev, /dev/shm which we mount natively with systemd may have options
> listed in fstab, which might need to be applied later. There are
> setups with insane amounts of disks which can't reliably bootup
> without the proper non-default options for the /dev tmpfs.
> 
> So a common way to do this mandatory task would be good to have, I think.

Hmm, maybe "mount -a -o remount" does what we want? If it doesn't we
probably should ask Karel to add something like that...

Lennart

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