[systemd-devel] Help! iSCSI based file systems with "_netdev" causing ordering cycles to occur (random services and mounts fail)

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fr, 27.10.23 20:46, Tony Rodriguez (unixpro1970 at gmail.com) wrote:

> Andrea asked for more details so I have provide this verbose output.
>
> 1) Lennart's recommendation of removing "/tmp" within /etc/fstab and using
> tmpfs for "/tmp" appears to stop the dependency issue for systemd-239 for
> systemd-252.  However, RH8 and RH9 don't support systemd-networkd, I am
> wondering how this can be overcome if removing "/tmp" and using "tmpfs"
> aren't options?  Would I have to modify various services and targets? What
> would I need to add or remove within services and targets to avoid these
> dependencies?

This is something you'd have to ask your OS vendor. If they don't
support netwokrd, they will support something else, and maybe it has a
way to run in early boot or initrd.

Booting without /tmp/ mounted during early boot is simply not
supported from upstream, sorry, can't help you there. Please contact
your OS vendor if they can help you.

> 2) On another note, with RH9 systemd-252-14/systemd-252-18 and iscsi, new
> dependency issues occur if "_netdev" within /etc/fstab is specified for
> "/var" or "/usr".

If /usr/ is split off it *must* be mounted even earlier than /tmp/: it
must be mounted in the initrd, nothing else is supported, sorry.

If /var/ is split off it must be mounted at the same point as /tmp/,
i.e some time in early boot, not necessarily in the initrd though.

Lennart

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