[systemd-devel] Unit configuration for S3QL filesystem

[Nikolaus Rath]

Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> writes:
> 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.

Is there any way to avoid that, and give the background process some
time to terminate on its own?

Best,
-Nikolaus

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