There are sometimes users who put unit files in a location that is inaccessible
when systemd starts although they are not found and thus not started because
the corresponding mount units have not activated yet.
There is already a warning for such issue in man 8 systemctl:
link PATH...
...<snip>...
The file system where
the linked unit files are located must be accessible
when systemd is started (e.g. anything underneath /home
or /var is not allowed, unless those directories are
located on the root file system).
However, it looks that it's difficult to find the warning because introductory
users typically doesn't know systemctl link.
Although there is a description in UNIT FILE LOAD PATH pointing to systemctl
link, symlink is now not explicitly mentioned there and thus users doesn't
easily get aware of they should read it.
To deal with this, let's describe "symlink" and "systemctl link" more
explicitly in UNIT FILE LOAD PATH.
We should allow the ones that the [Unit] section of regular unit files
may accet, but no other, in particular not the internal deps we
synthesize as reverse of explicitly configured ones, such was WantedBy=.
Fixes: #14251
It makes sense to filter state changes for some load states that
shouldn't happen, but the common cases should be accepted, because they
might happen during runtime when "systemctl daemon-reload" is issued and
unit files changed state in between. Otherwise we lose events.
Fixes: #4708
When probing partitions, we inherit important information from the parent
disk device such as ID_MODEL, and usage of such properties is seen to
be acceptable and well established.
However, we need to exclude filesystem information from the properties
that get inherited. Information about the device content should not be
passed on in this way.
For example, Linux distro install media commonly uses an ISO filesystem
plus a partition table. The ISO filesystem is detected on the main disk
device, but we should not pass down those details to the partitions,
some or all of which may be pointing at storage areas completely distinct
from the ISO filesystem.
This is particularly problematic when adding new partitions on media
set up in this way (since the new partitions are then reported to contain
the parent device's ISO filesystem), or when dealing with more unusual
hybrid ISO layouts. The inaccuracy of information here inversely affects
users of blkid and udev's persistent storage symlinks.
Exclude ID_FS_* properties from the inheritance chain to avoid these
problems.
Fixes: #14408
