systemd: root device on iscsi

[Bill Nottingham]

Jeremy Sanders (jeremy at jeremysanders.net) said: 
> Hi - is an iscsi root device a supported configuration setup with F16 and 
> systemd? I asked on #systemd, and got pointed here.
> 
> We're using dracut to boot diskless systems with root devices on iscsi. This 
> works fine for booting using Fedora 16 and systemd.
> 
> Unfortunately, on shutdown the system hangs. It stops the network interface 
> before mounting the root device read-only or stopping the iscsi service 
> (leaving the fedora iscsi target in a confused state too). On Fedora 14, 
> this worked fine with the old fashioned init system.
> 
> In the old init system you used to be able to put a "_netdev" flag in fstab, 
> which would fix this problem. This doesn't seem to work now.

What are you using for networking - the old network service or
NetworkManager?

Bill