[systemd-devel] Systemd in LXC container

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 20.11.12 15:23, Alexander Vladimirov (alexander.idkfa.vladimirov at gmail.com) wrote:

> > > I was able to fix it using simple patch (http://pastie.org/5380592)
> > which
> > > makes systemd ignore root mount when running in container.
> >
> > Hmm, the code in mount_points_list_umount() in umount.c already exlcudes
> > / and /usr from all unmounting?
> >
> Yes, it does, but those filesystems are counted as failed then, and systemd
> reports that it cannot unmount all filesystems.
> I was guessing if it could be the reason why journal gets corrupted and it
> turns out it's not.
> It still seems a bit useful, since it prevents systemd from printing
> cryptic warnings about failed unmounts without actual filesystem name.
> 
> >
> > > The second issue is journald reporting journal corruption on every
> > > container boot, regardless of clean shutdown. This also happens when I
> > > bind-mount hosts journal directory into container.
> >
> > Hmm, this is interesting. Do you see any messages about journal shutting
> > down in the journal?
> >
> That's  what container's journal look like after shutdown:
> http://pastie.org/private/njgmtyxdglrpx3qxspufog,
> there's no warnings or errors on console during or after shutdown.

Could you file two fdo bugs about issues? This both looks like stuff to
fix properly.

Lennart

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