On Wednesday 12 Dec 2012 00:40:43 Tom Gundersen wrote:
Sockets in /var should automatically be ordered After=var.mount, so this should in theory just work. How are you mounting /var? I assume an fstab entry would not do in your setting, so I guess you somehow generate a custom var.mount file? Please link to the code so I could have a look.
That's what I hoped too. I've tried several approaches. I'm trying a mount unit here, because I was hoping there might be a bit more magic to it. However, it does mean that I had to hardcode the mount path (%H doesn't seem to work), but if I can get this working, I have a oneshot unit that should take care of that. I created a "sockets-pre.target" unit, ordered before "sockets.target", and the following unit is ordered before that, because I was hoping that might help. It doesn't, presumably because the socket units and this unit are all "before" sockets.target, and all get started at the same time. If the sockets were set "after" sockets-pre.target, this would probably work. (But in that case they might as well be specified directly in the unit, and the sockets-pre target can be dropped.) [Unit] Description=/var directory for the node DefaultDependencies=false Requires=sockets-pre.target Before=sockets-pre.target [Mount] What=192.168.0.1:/srv/nfs/cluster-store/vars/node07 Where=/var Type=nfs Options=v3,nolock [Install] RequiredBy=local-fs.target Bootchart is available here: http://giddie.homeip.net/screenshots/cluster-node-var-mount-boot-chart.png Thanks, Paul