Hello all, I'm migrating a diskless cluster from initscripts to systemd. The problem I have is that the nodes each need to mount their own separate /var (identified by hostname) from the NFS server when they boot. With initscripts, I used a sysinit_end hook to do the job, which worked pretty well. However, with systemd I've really hit a brick wall. I can't get the unit to start early enough, because systemd creates so many sockets (in /var) so early, and there's no target that is ordered before the socket units are started. This means that the early sockets get masked when the "real" /var is mounted, and things break. I think the only solution with systemd is to explicitly specify each socket in "Before=" for my unit, which is likely to break if anything changes in future. It might also be possible to create a generator that automates this, but that's still pretty ugly. Right now, I'm thinking the only sensible solution is to forget doing it with systemd and push the mounting of /var up into initcpio, but that's admitting defeat. Any ideas? Paul
