Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-releng] FYI: systemd 198

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:

On 03/07/2013 09:35 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:

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Hi guys,

A new systemd release is out (not yet packaged though), and there are several features which might be of interest to us.

Cheers,

Tom

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lennart Poettering Date: Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:12 AM Subject: [systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] systemd 198 To: systemd Mailing List

Hey!

Finally, here's 198, with many big changes:

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/systemd-198.tar.xz

In detail:

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* A number of unit files to ease adoption of systemd in initrds has been added. This moves some minimal logic from the various initrd implementations into systemd proper.

I am excited in particularity for this feature, and how can be used for archiso, when mkinitcpio supports this.

This should basically "just work" now, but I'd like to do a bit more testing before shipping a "systemd" mkinitcpio hook.

I guess in a future, something similar will be happen to replace "shutdown" initramfs script with systemd, right?

I did the minimal work to allow /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-shutdown to be used instead of our current /shutdown script, so this should work with v198. However, I think we want to improve the systemd shutdown logic to make it a bit more elegant before using it by default: * It should be a bit more clever about the order in which it tries to unmount things. * It should avoid printing ugly warnings from shutdown in the real root when the problems will anyway be solved in the shutdown ramfs. * Lastly, we should probably optimize the whole process by giving up early in the real root and jump into the shutdown ramfs as soon as possible. Patches welcome :-) Cheers, Tom