On Mon, 2021-06-14 at 18:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 14/06/2021 17:52, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2021-06-14 at 03:42 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > On 13/06/2021 23:57, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > I did the same and it has made a big difference, i.e. I no > > > > longer > > > > have > > > > the very long delay waiting for usb-settle. > > > > > > > > I still don't know why my external dock is being mounted at > > > > boot, > > > > but I > > > > can live with it for now. > > > I've not thought about these issues you're having in quite some > > > time. But, while servicing a cat > > > at 3AM I started to wonder. > > > > > > If you were to disable the dock-watch.service does the boot > > > process > > > complete quickly? > > > > > I tried 'systemctl disable dock-watch' but for some reason it's > > being > > re-enabled on boot, so that has no effect. > > Are you saying that after doing a "systemctl disable" it shows up as > "enabled" after > a reboot? > > I wonder if getting started is due to Wants=dock-watch.service in > raid.mount. > > > > I physically disconnected the dock and it does make a big > > difference, > > so there's no doubt where the problem lies. > > > > > If it does, might there be a way to start the service after the > > > boot > > > process is completed? > > > > > If I can manage to actually disable dock-watch from starting > > automatically then presumably I could run it from crontab using an > > '@reboot' line. > > For a "test" you may want to try masking the service. I commented out the Wants line in raid.mount and removed the dock- watch.service file (masking it gave an error). This effectively removed the boot delay. Now I'm considering whether to junk the whole dock-watch idea and use Chris's suggestion of a udev rule to just set the drives' standby values directly. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
