[arch-releng] [RFC] [archiso] Use a pure systemd enviroment

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

On 08/22/2012 06:55 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 19.08.2012 21:15, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
>> 1) DHCP is requested again on real-root. I guess, is most cases, there
>> is no issues since is re-assigned the same IP address. (this bug
>> introduced recently since rc.conf enabled "network")
> This is actually necessary. If you don't start a real DHCP daemon on
> boot, then you won't renew your lease and the DHCP server may give the
> IP to someone else.
>
> Your lease should still be valid when you re-launch DHCP, so you can
> rely on getting the same IP. You could probably even configure dhcpcd to
> specifically request the correct IP.
>
>> Solutions:
>> a) If this happens suggest the to the user use copytoram=y
>> b) Use copytoram=y in NBD/NFS by default (this is always done for HTTP),
>> user can change this behaviour.
>> c) Disable DHCP service from relevant hooks.
> None of these are good solutions.
>
>> 2) Stopping network on shutdown, if network is stopped before reach
>> shutdown-initramfs againt this does not look good.
>> Solutions:
>> a) See how to skip network on shutdown.
>> b) Same point (1.b)
> We must not stop network on shutdown. We can quit dhcpcd without
> releasing the lease or shutting down the network. If this is not
> possible with systemd, then something is very wrong.
>
>

Anyway I always use copytoram on NBD and NFS like doing actually with 
HTTP now. They avoid other issues, for example with NBD uses /dev/nbd0 
that, on shutdown-initramfs is present on /oldroot/dev/nbd0 (this one 
node is used) and /dev/nbd0 => we can not umount /oldroot/dev/ directly, 
we need mount --move /oldroot/dev over /dev and continue....

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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