[arch-general] Final step before changing to systemd

[Martín Cigorraga]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>wrote:

> Am 16.10.2012 03:56, schrieb Martín Cigorraga:
> > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Gaetan Bisson <bisson at archlinux.org
> >wrote:
> >
> >> [2012-10-15 22:25:58 -0300] Martín Cigorraga:
> >>> Basically I need to know how to handle these daemons:
> >>> hwclock
> >>
> >> Ditch it. Use NTP instead:
>
> I think systemd does hwclock handling in some way. However, you should
> always run NTP, on every machine, real or virtual.
>
> >>> netfs
> >>
> >> Well, do you actually have network filesystems you wish to mount?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Gaetan
> >>
> >
> > Yes I do, I have several NFS4 shares in my household network but I'm
> > looking forward
> > to implement Avahi/Zeroconf instead since NFS4 takes ages to give up at
> > boot if the
> > servers are offline.
> > Should I still enable the service then?
> > Thank you!
>
> Some tips:
> 1) Use the _netdev option in fstab. This makes sure systemd knows they
> are network file systems and acts accordingly. Also make sure you have
> the very latest nfs-utils, as the rpc-idmapd and rpc-gssd units have
> been fixed there.
>
> 2) If you don't want to wait during boot, use the
> x-systemd.automount,noauto option. This will mount the file systems on
> demand.
>
>
>
Wow, that's great to know, thank you =)