On 08/15/13 at 11:25am, Vivek Goyal wrote:
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 03:42:27PM +0800, WANG Chao wrote:
> Now kdump.service runs "After" network.target. But network.target
> doesn't mean network is setup and online[1]. We should use
> network-online.target instead for ssh/nfs dump.
>
> And also because nfs dump requires a mounted nfs when rebuilding kdump
> initrd, kdump.service should also run "After" remote-fs.target (this
> means all remote fs configured in /etc/fstab is mounted).
>
> 1.
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/NetworkTarget
>
> Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang(a)redhat.com>
I think this dependency might create some issues. What if kdump.conf is
not dumping to an nfs/ssh target. What if there is a configuration issue
and a network interface is not coming up. Does that mean kdump service
will not run at all in that case?
Kdump will run, because kdump don't "Wants" or "Requires"
these service/target (ie, kdump won't pull in them if they're disabled).
"After" means if kdump will try to run after these services/target, but
if these services/target aren't enabled or pulled in by other service
("Requires" or "Wants"). Kdump service will simply ignore the
disabled
ones and run after the enabled ones.
Thanks
WANG Chao