[systemd-devel] How to keep certain services or mounts active during shutdown?

[Frank Steiner]

Mantas Mikulėnas wrote

 > If the 'main' network.service doesn't do anything anyway (since the
> network is already up), you can replace it entirely with Type=oneshot,
> ExecStart=/bin/true, RemainAfterExit=yes, essentially a service that
> does nothing at all (but still satisfies dependencies).

Ok, I'm fine doing it this way! Just thought there might be a better
way.

>     2. The two additional NFS mounts should be kept active, too. There
>     are no
>       *.mount files for them in /run/systemd/generator, because they are
>       mounted in the initrd I guess.
> 
> 
> Not sure about this one. I wonder if the "shutdown initramfs" feature
> [1] would help here.

I didn't see how that might help. I'll try to setup *.mount file
for these mounts and try to order them with Before/After directivies
so that they are kept as long as possible during the shutdown.

cu,
Frank

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