Systemd on vivid beta

[Bruce Ferrell]

On 03/10/2015 08:34 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 10 March 2015 at 00:38, Bruce Ferrell <bferrell at baywinds.org> wrote:
>> On 03/09/2015 03:02 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 9 March 2015 at 18:08, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I'd start by adding "$network" to your "Required-Start" and
>>>>> "Required-Stop" lines. It might create a better dependency translation
>>>>> when a systemd .service unit is generated from the sysvinit script.
>>>> More research led me to do that just a few minutes before receiving
>>>> this, but it does not seem to have helped. Is the generated unit human
>>>> readable?
>>> Under "/run/systemd/".
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Longer-term, you should look into migrating your mounts to systemd .mount units.
>>>> OK. I am slightly put off by the fact that I got round to learning a
>>>> bit about upstart and converting one of my scripts just before it was
>>>> announced that ubuntu was changing to systemd :(
>>> With systemd mount units, you can cheat.
>>>
>>> Set up an fstab line for your cifs mount, reboot, and look at the
>>> .mount unit that systemd-fstab-generator will have created under
>>> "/run/systemd/".
>>>
>> Gee... We used to be able to "cheat" and just add the mount line to /etc/fstab without a "noauto" option.  then mount -a did the trick... I guess that too complex for systemd to handle
> Can one no longer do that?  It is not what I want though, I have a
> dynamic network with devices coming and going, and the script
> automatically mounts/unmounts them as they come and go.
>
> Colin
>
Ahhh... I misunderstood your need.

For what you're talking about, I use autofs.  it mounts and unmounts filesystems as needed.  I used to use it for a server attached zip drive and it's most common use is network
(CIFS and/or NFS) filesystems.  The appear as needed and when no longer in use, disappear.  No fstab entry, but the autofs configuration IS a bit arcane.  Once working, it's flawless.