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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2015-11-08 14:12:54 +0100
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2015-11-10 19:33:06 -0500
commit36b4a7ba555540edb7648e0f97019280b4ac38de (patch)
treea00ff6d8304552e68e08e026d7f0c174cbed5746 /man/systemd.xml
parente3c4a681db0b7004904b95d55fd1a443161c9397 (diff)
Remove snapshot unit type
Snapshots were never useful or used for anything. Many systemd developers that I spoke to at systemd.conf2015, didn't even know they existed, so it is fairly safe to assume that this type can be deleted without harm. The fundamental problem with snapshots is that the state of the system is dynamic, devices come and go, users log in and out, timers fire... and restoring all units to some state from the past would "undo" those changes, which isn't really possible. Tested by creating a snapshot, running the new binary, and checking that the transition did not cause errors, and the snapshot is gone, and snapshots cannot be created anymore. New systemctl says: Unknown operation snapshot. Old systemctl says: Failed to create snapshot: Support for snapshots has been removed. IgnoreOnSnaphost settings are warned about and ignored: Support for option IgnoreOnSnapshot= has been removed and it is ignored http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-November/034872.html
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boot-up. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.automount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Snapshot units can be used to temporarily save
- the state of the set of systemd units, which later may be
- restored by activating the saved snapshot unit. For more
- information, see
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.snapshot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
-
<listitem><para>Timer units are useful for triggering activation
of other units based on timers. You may find details in
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.timer</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>