[systemd-devel] Should automount units for network filesystems be Before=local-fs.target?

[Martin Wilck]

On Thu, 2017-04-27 at 15:53 +1000, Michael Chapman wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> At present, when systemd-fstab-generator creates an automount unit
> for an 
> fstab entry, it applies the dependencies that would have been put
> into the 
> mount unit into the automount unit instead.
> 
> For a local filesystem, this automount unit would be 
> Before=local-fs.target. For a network filesystem, it gets 
> Before=remote-fs.target. If the mount is not noauto, it also gets a 
> corresponding WantedBy= or RequiredBy= dependency.
> 
> Would it make more sense for the automount unit to be ordered before
> (and, 
> if not noauto, be pulled in by) local-fs.target, even for network 
> filesystems?

Please don't. We don't need additional failure points for local-
fs.target.

Martin

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