Hi All, For those of you who are still around from when I was a part of the anaconda team: long time no see. First some background on $subject: The Fedora workstation livecd is the default Fedora variant getfedora.org advices people to download. As such most Fedora workstation installs will be done from the livecd. As you very well know, with livecd installs the packageset installed is the one which used to compose the livecd, since the rootfs is simply rsync-ed over. This means that any storage related packages which may be necessary in some exotic setups are part of the livecd. Some of these storage related packages are poorly behaved wrt their systemd services, they come with services which simply always run. 2 of these are particularly bad because they also bring in (through Requires=) the long obsolete systemd-udev-settle service significantly delaying the boot. These are dmraid and device-mapper-multipath. As you may have seen I have proposed 2 changes for Fedora 33 to deal with this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DisableDmraidOnFirstRun https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RemoveDeviceMapperMultipathFromWorkstationLiveCD These are currently being discussed on the fedora-devel mailinglist. One suggestion which came up there and which I think is probably a better idea then my original solutions is to make anaconda disable the related services in the post-install config part of the livecd install. This should be easy to implement, unless this has changed since I last worked on anaconda, the storage code will provide a list of extra packages which need to be installed because they are necessary for the chosen storage config. My idea is to have a table (somewhere) with mappings of storage packages to service-names to disable. Then the livecd post-install config code can ask the storage code for the list of necessary packages and then walk over this new table. If a package is not listed as being necessary by the storage code, then the livecd post-install config code can run "systemctl disable $mapped-service.service" thus disabling any (bad behaved) storage services which are not necessary. For starters this table would just contain dmraid and device-mapper-multipath, but I think this would be a nice generic config mechanism which we might be able to use for some other cases in the future. So 2 questions: 1. What do you think of my proposal to disable these services (when not needed) in the livecd post-install config phase? Would you be willing to accept a merge-req for this? 2. Its been a long time since I last touched the anaconda code, my python is quite rusty and my plate is way too full, so I was wondering if one of you could implement this if we chose to go this route? Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
