[systemd-devel] systemd hangs after Welcome message when LogLevel=debug

[Tom Gundersen]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Dominique Michel
<dominique.michel at vtxnet.ch> wrote:
> Le Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:52:44 -0800,
> David Timothy Strauss <david at davidstrauss.net> a écrit :
>
>> It would be nice if bootup could realize the journal queue is full and
>> wait for journal startup before proceeding further. It might cause
>> some annoying non-determinism, though.
>>
>> We primarily see the problem with the logging from automounts and
>> mount units.
>
> In /etc/fstab, we can set if a partition must be mounted or not at
> boot time, but not if, in the case it must be mounted, that partition is
> vital for the system (i.e. / or /var) and the system must wait for it to
> be mounted, or if that partition is not vital (i.e. /mnt/*) and the
> system don't need to wait for it to boot. It would be great if such a
> feature could be implemented in systemd or elsewhere.

Isn't this precisely what 'fail'/'nofail' allows?

Cheers,

Tom