[systemd-devel] cannot create hard dependencies on mounts

[Andrei Borzenkov]

On 10.09.2024 17:37, Henti Smith wrote:
> 
> While starting data.mount, this works correctly, as it waits for the NFS
> share to become available before it mounts.. However, starting
> mission.service without starting data.mount, it correctly requires
> data.mount, but mission.service executes anyway.
> 
> I'm not entirely sure why this happens.
> 

Because Requires without After is useless. I am yet to see the use case 
for it.

...

> 
> Am I misunderstanding how this is supposed to work ?
>

Probably. This is sort of documented, but may be not prominently.