On Oct 28, 2014 5:05 PM, "Lennart Poettering" <<a href="mailto:lennart@poettering.net">lennart@poettering.net</a>> wrote: > On Tue, 28.10.14 11:28, Dale R. Worley (<a href="mailto:worley@alum.mit.edu">worley@alum.mit.edu</a>) wrote: > > That is not entirely true. I'm a user (because systemd is in Fedora > > 19), and I've complained that if I mark an /etc/fstab entry as > > "nofail", some part of systemd will wait *forever* to see if the > > partition becomes available, whereas the behavior that I want (which > > was provided in earlier Fedora releases) is that once the system > > gets to the point of user logins, it will give up on automatic booting > > (and leave it to manual control). > > I have already replied to this, and pointed out that such a scheme is > inherently racy, and that this is something we will unlikely support > natively in systemd. Sorry for that. I think the actual issue here is the behavior of Type=idle, which delays the gettys for an annoying amount of time. Maybe launching the getty should shut off boot messages instead. Or maybe this should happen after a configurable IdleTimeout instead of having Type=idle always wait until end of transaction.