Instead of the /dev/.run trick we have currently implemented, we decided
to move the early-boot runtime dir to /run.
An existing /var/run directory is bind-mounted to /run. If /var/run is
already a symlink, no action is taken.
An existing /var/lock directory is bind-mounted to /run/lock.
If /var/lock is already a symlink, no action is taken.
To implement the directory vs. symlink logic, we have a:
ConditionPathIsDirectory=
now, which is used in the mount units.
Skipped mount unit in case of symlink:
$ systemctl status var-run.mount
var-run.mount - Runtime Directory
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/var-run.mount)
Active: inactive (dead)
start condition failed at Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:51:41 +0100; 6min ago
Where: /var/run
What: /run
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/var-run.mount
The systemd rpm needs to make sure to add something like:
%pre
mkdir -p -m0755 /run >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
or it needs to be added to filesystem.rpm.
Udev -git already uses /run if that exists, and is writable at bootup.
Otherwise it falls back to the current /dev/.udev.
Dracut and plymouth need to be adopted to switch from /dev/.run to run
too.
Cheers,
Kay
During early boot, mount a tmpfs to /dev/.run and then bind mount it to
/var/run as soon as /var is available.
This makes it possible for programs involved in early boot to put
runtime data in /dev/.run which later on will show up in /var/run like
any other.
This can be used to solve the early-boot D-Bus problem: D-Bus may start
up with its socket bound to /dev/.run/dbus/system_bus_socket and after
/var it will also be available under the traditional name
/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket.
This also is intended to be used as a better place for systemd, mount,
mdadm, blkid, plymouth, bootchart and dracut runtime data, which is
currently stored in various places in /dev/.xxx.
We should not handle the ignore list as API mounts, as
systemd itself never touches them.
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:34, Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> wrote:
>
> I noticed for some time that systemd-remount-api-vfs is in the
> failed state and found now the following in the log files
>
> systemd-remount-api-vfs[467]: /bin/mount for /proc/bus/usb exited with exit status 32.
> systemd-remount-api-vfs[467]: mount: /proc/bus/usb not mounted already, or bad option
> systemd[1]: systemd-remount-api-vfs.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1
> systemd[1]: Unit systemd-remount-api-vfs.service entered failed state.
