https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676302
systemd now watches /run/initramfs/plymouth and generates messages
exactly when that file exists. Hence we don't need the sending of the
signals anymore.
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
Now that we have /dev/.run there's no need to use abstract namespace
sockets. So, let's move things to /dev/.run, to make things more easily
discoverable and improve compat with chroot() and fs namespacing.
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.
This merges several separate patches that I carry as part of
Mandriva systemd RPM. They touch those parts that are very
unlikely to be changed in near future and do not impose any
functionality change for systemd core. I also think it is
useful for troubleshooting to have real distribution name in
system logs, espicially when someone reports problem upstream.
The patch looks bigger than sum of replaced patches because
- previous patches were applied on top of distro=fedora, now
I need to add all those bits for distro=mandriva as well
- part of patch was done as spec file magic, but it seems more
logical to ship all these bits together