[systemd-devel] I wonder… why systemd provokes this amount of polarity and resistance

[Jan Alexander Steffens]

On Oct 28, 2014 5:05 PM, "Lennart Poettering" <lennart at poettering.net>
wrote:
> On Tue, 28.10.14 11:28, Dale R. Worley (worley at alum.mit.edu) wrote:
> > That is not entirely true.  I'm a user (because systemd is in Fedora
> > 19), and I've complained that if I mark an /etc/fstab entry as
> > "nofail", some part of systemd will wait *forever* to see if the
> > partition becomes available, whereas the behavior that I want (which
> > was provided in earlier Fedora releases) is that once the system
> > gets to the point of user logins, it will give up on automatic booting
> > (and leave it to manual control).
>
> I have already replied to this, and pointed out that such a scheme is
> inherently racy, and that this is something we will unlikely support
> natively in systemd. Sorry for that.

I think the actual issue here is the behavior of Type=idle, which delays
the gettys for an annoying amount of time.

Maybe launching the getty should shut off boot messages instead. Or maybe
this should happen after a configurable IdleTimeout instead of having
Type=idle always wait until end of transaction.
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