systemd vice SysV/LSB init systems - what next ?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 20.07.11 11:06, Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net) wrote:

> I know Fedora has not really pushed multi-instanciation before (but there are
> exceptions, see clamav). But our users do need multi-instanciation and
> routinely tweak our init scripts for this reason. They won't appreciate
> systemd pulling the carpet under their feet. If systemd is to be adopted, it
> needs to make it easier to multi-instanciate, not harder.

I am not sure what precisely you need but systemd actually supports
instantiated services. For example, getty at .service is instantiated 6
times for getty at tty1.service, getty at tty2.service and so on, from a
single service definition file. As are the fsck service or cryptsetup.

Note that writing around in /usr outside of package installation is not
acceptable, since we want to encourage usage of read-only /usr (and even /).

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.