systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

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I’m not great at any init things, but systemd has made my home server stuff relatively seamless. I have two NASs that I mount, and my server starts up WAY faster than both of them, and I (stupidly) have one mount within the other. So I set requirements that nasB doesn’t mount until nasA has, then docker doesn’t start until after nasB is mounted. Works way better than going in after 5 minutes and remounting and restarting.

Of course, I did just double my previous storage on A, so I could migrate all of Bs stuff back. But that would require a small amount of effort.

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what do you use as a prerequisite for the nas A mount? or does it iust keep trying in a loop?

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I have a wait-for-ping service that pings nas A, once it gets a successful response it tries to mount.

I lifted it from a time when I needed to ping my router because Debian had a network-online service bug. I adapted it to my nas because the network-online issue eventually got fixed and mounting my shares became the next biggest issue.

It seems like this person might have grabbed that same fix for what I eventually did because our files are…oddly almost exactly the same.

https://cweiske.de/tagebuch/systemd-wait-nfs.htm

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thanks!

do you perhaps also have a solution for hanging accesses to network mounts when the server is inaccessible?

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Do you mean a hang on boot when trying to mount? For that I use the nofail option in fstab. I also use the x-systemd.automount option so if something is not mounted for whatever reason, it tries to mount it when something attempts to access it.

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no, I mean the system has been up for a long time, but the server went down, and connection was lost

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That’s all handled with adding the x-systemd.automount option to my fstab entry. If it disconnects it’s unmounted, when it’s available again it mounts when something tries to access it.

I have occasionally needed to restart some services if they didn’t like getting disconnected, but as far as mounting goes it’s handled pretty smoothly with that option.

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