When the target (Where=) of a mount does not exist, systemd tries to
create it. But previously, it'd always been created as a directory. That
doesn't work if one wants to bind-mount a file to a target that doesn't
exist.
Fixes: #17184
In most cases we refernced the concept as "initrd". Let's convert most
remaining uses of "initramfs" to "initrd" too, to stay internally
consistent.
This leaves "initramfs" only where it's relevant to explain historical
concepts or where "initramfs" is part of the API (i.e. in
/run/initramfs).
Follow-up for: b66a6e1a58
I think the current behaviour is stupid: 'x-systemd.automount,noauto' should
mean that we create the units, but don't add .mount or .automount to any targets.
Instead, we completely ignore 'noauto'. But let's at least describe the
implementation.
Text suggested by dpartrid in the bug.
Fixes#21040.
For some unit types we have hundreds of options, and the reader may easily miss
that more options are described in other pages. We already mentioned this in
the introduction and then at the top of the option list, but it can't hurt to
repeat the information.
Also, add an (almost empty) Options section for the unit types which don't have
any custom options. It is nicer to have the same page structure in all cases,
so people can jump between pages for different types more easily.
For users, the square brackets already serve as markup and clearly delineate
the section name from surrounding text. Putting additional markup around that
only adds clutter. Also, we were very inconsistent in using the quotes. Let's
just drop them altogether.
If an entry in fstab uses "x-systemd.automount" option and also asks for
additionnal dependencies via x-systemd.requires or such, then the dependencies
were applied to the automount unit.
But this unlikely to do the right thing and is inconsistent with what's done
for network mounts.
Indeed when an fstab entries has "_netdev,x-systemd.automount" options, the
dependencies against the network requested by "_netdev" are (correctly) applied
to the mount unit only and the automount unit remains ordered against
local-fs.target.
The same logic should be followed when extra deps are specified via the mount
options as automount units should always be ordered against local-fs.target.
Note: in general explicit deps specified via mount options should be used with
care and should be used to specify dependencies on other mount units only as it
can easily create ordering cycles otherwise like it's been seen in
https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/issues/69. Mount units (as well as
automount ones) are ordered before local-fs.target by default which is a
low-level target that most other units depend on.
I wasn't 100% convinced that this is the right thing to do, hence the separate
commit. But e.g. for paths we index all mentions, so I think it's reasonable to
do the same here.
Teaches systemd-fstab-generator these two unit options,
creating appropriate dependencies on the generated .mount
units. When used, they override any other automatically
generated dependencies, such as local-fs.target, and are
NOT suppressed by noauto. The new options are ignored for
/, in the same way that noauto is ignored.
Fixes: #14380
Signed-off-by: Antonio Russo <antonio.e.russo@gmail.com>
