From d5cd18f2d57ec143763cd9443e538f175121c419 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Didier Roche Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:42:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Workaround to avoid a race when /var/lib is a persistent dataset If /var/lib is a dataset not under /ROOT/, as proposed in the ubuntu root on zfs upstream guide (https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu-18.04-Root-on-ZFS), we end up with a race where some services, like systemd-random-seed are writing under /var/lib, while zfs-mount is called. zfs mount will then potentially fail because of /var/lib isn't empty and so, can't be mounted. Order those 2 units for now (more may be needed) as we can't declare virtually a provide mount point to match "RequiresMountsFor=/var/lib/systemd/random-seed" from systemd-random-seed.service. The optional generator for zfs 0.8 fixes it, but it's not enabled by default nor necessarily required. Example: - rpool/ROOT/ubuntu (mountpoint = /) - rpool/var/ (mountpoint = /var) - rpool/var/lib (mountpoint = /var/lib) Both zfs-mount.service and systemd-random-seed.service are starting After=systemd-remount-fs.service. zfs-mount.service should be done before local-fs.target while systemd-random-seed.service should finish before sysinit.target (which is a later target). Ideally, we would have a way for zfs mount -a unit to declare all paths or move systemd-random-seed after local-fs.target. Signed-off-by: Didier Roche --- etc/systemd/system/zfs-mount.service.in | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/etc/systemd/system/zfs-mount.service.in b/etc/systemd/system/zfs-mount.service.in index a18691a4680a..6507c0765d01 100644 --- a/etc/systemd/system/zfs-mount.service.in +++ b/etc/systemd/system/zfs-mount.service.in @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ After=systemd-udev-settle.service After=zfs-import.target After=systemd-remount-fs.service Before=local-fs.target +Before=systemd-random-seed.service [Service] Type=oneshot