This means we can use default dependencies on mount units without having to get them automatically
ordered before the filesystem targets.
Reported-by: Thomas Baechler <thomas@archlinux.org>
This introduces remote-fs-setup.target independently of
remote-fs-pre.target. The former is only for pulling things in, the
latter only for ordering.
The new semantics:
remote-fs-setup.target: is pulled in automatically by all remote mounts.
Shall be used to pull in other units that want to run when at least one
remote mount is set up. Is not ordered against the actual mount units,
in order to allow activation of its dependencies even 'a posteriori',
i.e. when a mount is established outside of systemd and is only picked
up by it.
remote-fs-pre.target: needs to be pulled in automatically by the
implementing service, is otherwise not part of the initial transaction.
This is ordered before all remote mount units.
A service that wants to be pulled in and run before all remote mounts
should hence have:
a) WantedBy=remote-fs-setup.target -- so that it is pulled in
b) Wants=remote-fs-pre.target + Before=remote-fs-pre.target -- so that
it is ordered before the mount point, normally.
This reverts commit 6bde0b3220.
We should not pull in remote-fs-pre.target unconditionally. It's
supposed to be pulled in by the implementors of it, rather then its
users.
This pulls in remote-fs-pre.target if remote-fs.target is needed.
Previously remote-fs-pre.target was not active, if no remote fs was
mounted from /etc/fstab. So, every manual remote fs mount was ordered
against the inactive remote-fs-pre.target and umount.target.
Because remote-fs-pre.target was not active, the remote fs was umounted
at umount.target time, which was too late (network already down).
Now remote-fs-pre.target is active, even if no remote fs is mounted.
On shutdown it is deactivated in the correct order and all manual remote
fs mounts also.
This should help making the boot process a bit easier to explore and
understand for the administrator. The simple idea is that "systemctl
status" now shows a link to documentation alongside the other status and
decriptionary information of a service.
This patch adds the necessary fields to all our shipped units if we have
proper documentation for them.
We finally got the OK from all contributors with non-trivial commits to
relicense systemd from GPL2+ to LGPL2.1+.
Some udev bits continue to be GPL2+ for now, but we are looking into
relicensing them too, to allow free copy/paste of all code within
systemd.
The bits that used to be MIT continue to be MIT.
The big benefit of the relicensing is that closed source code may now
link against libsystemd-login.so and friends.
remote-fs.target is ordered after the {auto,}mount units. In case of automount
we do not want to wait for the network to come up before proceeding. In case
of a regular mount unit, the unit will be ordered after network.target
so the behavior is unchanged.
This speeds up boot quite a bit for me when having some services needing
NetworkManager-wait-online.service, and having my home partition on nfs
under an automountpoint.
