[HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Wed Jul 14 15:08:56 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:

> iscsid is a semi-regular daemon, yet its initscript is special as it
> only starts iscsid when needed. Socket based activation is out of the question as iscsid
> is a userspace kernel support daemon. Which needs to be started ASAP,
> so that it is ready to do error recovery when the kernel needs it.
>
> However we do not want to always start it, only when iscsi targets are in use.
> So the bash iscsid script has this "beauty" :

Move the code into the daemon, and have it exit() if it's not needed?


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