Demand start vs. system policies

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Wed Mar 5 16:47:38 PST 2014


On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 19:06 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Udisks2 added support for setting standby timers and I think some
> other drive settings.  At the same time, udisksd is a demand start
> daemon, that is launched by dbus only when a client tries to use it.
> This combination seems to conflict: if no udisks client is run, then
> the settings won't be applied.
> 
> Now that I think about it, udisks also does periodic polling of SMART
> health, which has the same issue.
> 
> Does it really make sense for udisksd to be demand start?

It will be started by gvfsd-udisks2-volume-monitor when the session
starts, so it's not actually a problem. It means it won't slow down I/O
during boot.



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