[systemd-devel] Unit configuration for S3QL filesystem

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 21.04.14 19:05, Diogo Vieira (dfv at eurotux.com) wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to create a unit to automatically mount a fuse filesystem
> known as S3QL, which is the one in question in this older thread:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-May/005062.html. The
> problem seems to be that after unmounting the filesystem it still
> needs network access to transfer data. Can someone tell me if it's
> already possible to create a mount unit configuration that covers this
> or should I go with a service unit? And if I need a service unit how
> do I deal with the chance of someone manually unmounting the
> filesystem thus making (I believe, didn't test it) the service status
> return successfully when in fact the filesystem's not mounted? I don't
> know if it's useful, but I'm trying this on Fedora.

systemd will invoke /bin/mount when mounting a file system, and
/bin/umount when unmountin it. fuse file systems may fork off background
processes from there, that will be kept around while the file system is
mounted, and terminated atfer the file system is unmounted again.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat