From 89fc708c0ae9ea8ab31f04bc27e845038d30b543 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 17:53:31 -0500 Subject: man: clarify that generators are run before /var Just a clarification. At least systemd-openqa-generator from openqa gets this wrong. --- man/systemd.generator.xml | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/systemd.generator.xml b/man/systemd.generator.xml index 62658fb115..4b80dab108 100644 --- a/man/systemd.generator.xml +++ b/man/systemd.generator.xml @@ -164,13 +164,16 @@ Generators are run very early at boot and cannot rely on any external services. They may not talk to any other process. That includes simple things such as logging to - syslog3, + syslog3, or systemd itself (this means: no - systemctl1!). They - can however rely on the most basic kernel functionality to - be available, including a mounted /sys, - /proc, /dev. + systemctl1)!. + Non-essential file systems like + /var and /home + are mounted after generators have run. Generators + can however rely on the most basic kernel functionality to be + available, including a mounted /sys, + /proc, /dev, + /usr. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf