Recommendations regarding Debian Jessie and systemd?

Sven Schumacher schumacher at tfd.uni-hannover.de
Fri Jun 19 08:46:01 CEST 2015


Did you consider the "nofail" Option for your /etc/fstab entries which might fail/shouldn't fail?

> Am 19.06.2015 um 08:29 schrieb Dirk Geschke <dirk at lug-erding.de>:
> 
> Hi FAI-users,
> 
> I'm just testing to migrate to Debian Jessie and I'm still unsure
> if I should go with systemd yet. Whereas I'm still using sys-v-init
> on the server, I started with systemd on the clients.
> 
> Actually I failed with a race condition in mounting the file systems
> and starting ssh:
> 
>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760422
> 
> /run is a tmpfs created and filled by systemd. But if mounting via
> fstab takes too long, the root filesystem is still mounted read-only
> when systemd trys to fill /run with directories like /run/ssh, which
> is needed to start the sshd. The root directory is re-mounted rw later
> on. :-(
> 
> Since it took me a hole day to identify this problem, I'd like to ask
> you for experiences with systemd: Should one give it a try, is it
> already needed for desktops or would it be better to still use the
> old but functional (and easy debugable) system-v-init?
> 
> Any suggestions, ideas, workable solutions, ...?
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Dirk, who is still unsure wether he should give systemd a try...
> 
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