[systemd-devel] [PATCH 1/2] add initrd-fs.target and root-fs.target

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 05:06:01PM +0900, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:41 AM,  <harald at redhat.com> wrote:
> > From: Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com>
> >
> > Instead of using local-fs*.target in the initrd, use root-fs.target for
> > sysroot.mount and initrd-fs.target for /sysroot/usr and friends.
> >
> > Using local-fs.target would mean to carry over the activated
> > local-fs.target to the isolated initrd-switch-root.target and thus in
> > the real root. Having local-fs.target already active after
> > deserialization causes ordering problems with the real root services and
> > targets.
> >
> > We better isolate to targets for initrd-switch-root.target, which are
> > only available in the initrd.
> 
> Looks good.
> 
> This means that we should probably stop reusing units at all in the
> initramfs. In some cases I guess it works (udev/journal), but perhaps
> we should avoid it also there for consistency?
> 
> In particular any storage daemons will need initrd-specific versions
> which are ordered against these new targets rather than
> local-fs.target. I don't see a problem with this, just something we
> need to be aware of.
Sorry fot the belated comment, but isn't it possible to exploit the
fact that dependencies on non-existent unints are ignored and use
something like:

WantedBy=local-fs.target initrd-fs.target
Before=local-fs.target initrd-fs.target

which should work both in the initrd and on the real system?

Zbyszek