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| author | Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org> | 2015-07-27 19:34:19 -0300 |
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| committer | Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org> | 2015-08-05 21:26:11 -0300 |
| commit | 1abc8ae604f6acd18f7dec1ae8e7371c7773d0b0 (patch) | |
| tree | 4ce9f46448a6520c15529eddcc494d8500050c62 | |
| parent | e6898d854d3fc49879c9c9ef61c5212e2d23a0fc (diff) | |
man: Clarify that basic.target does not pull in remote filesystems
Also note /var, /tmp or /var/tmp as special cases, should either of
those be a remote filesystem.
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.special.xml | 19 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.special.xml b/man/systemd.special.xml index cf76aaf607..c8de0199f8 100644 --- a/man/systemd.special.xml +++ b/man/systemd.special.xml @@ -130,9 +130,22 @@ for this target unit to all services (except for those with <varname>DefaultDependencies=no</varname>).</para> - <para>Usually this should pull-in all mount points, swap - devices, sockets, timers, and path units and other basic - initialization necessary for general purpose daemons.</para> + <para>Usually this should pull-in all local mount points plus + <filename>/var</filename>, <filename>/tmp</filename> and + <filename>/var/tmp</filename>, swap devices, sockets, timers, + path units and other basic initialization necessary for general + purpose daemons. The mentioned mount points are special cased + to allow them to be remote. + </para> + + <para>This target usually does not pull in any non-target units + directly, but rather does so indirectly via other early boot targets. + It is instead meant as a synchronization point for late boot + services. Refer to + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>bootup</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> + for details on the targets involved. + </para> + </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |