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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:20:01 -0400
From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
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To: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH 0/2] some systemd unit changes
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On 03/03/2015 12:28 PM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello NFS developers,
> 
> reposting the two patches inline as requested by Steve.
> 
> I'm currently systemd-ifying our nfs-utils Ubuntu package. For testing I put
> the NFS server and client (i. e. localhost:/foo/bar mounts) on the same
> machine. With that I get long hangs during shutdown on stopping the NFS .mount
> units, as when that happens the NFS server is already shut down.
> 
> This is certainly a corner case as you'd usually not NFS-mount a share from
> localhost; but fixing it is relatively simple with the first patch, which makes
> sure that if NFS server and client are installed, the server starts before the
> client, and the client stops before the server.
> 
> For a client without installed server this is harmless as Before= does not
> imply a dependency. Likewise, for an NFS server which does not mount shares by
> itself, it's also a no-op as remote-fs.target is empty. This would only
> slightly reorder the boot sequence for machines which both are an NFS server
> and have some remote NFS mounts, but I don't see an issue with that.
> 
> The second patch make NFS start earlier in the boot (i. e. before
> basic.target), so that you can do things like put /var/ on NFS, or have rcS
> SysV init scripts which depend on $remote_fs work. I tested this on both a
> server and a client. This is certainly a bit more intrusive, but could be
> worthwhile; what do you think?
> 
> Thanks for considering,
Committed....

steved.

> 
> Martin
> 
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