Re: Unable to get service to wait for a mount before starting

[Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I tried using RequiresMountsFor=/mnt/share however again, if it runs too
> > early in the boot process the mount is not there and the unit fails to
> > start, and is not retried (logs just say "Job myservice.service/start
> > failed with result 'dependency'.")
> 
> RequiresMountsFor only works if systemd knows about this mount point
> which in practice usually means this mount point must be present in
> /etc/fstab.

Thanks for the suggestion!  I do have it in /etc/fstab, although there
are two:

server:/path /mnt/server/path nfs4 x-gvfs-hide,noauto,x-systemd.automount,timeo=15,soft,proto=tcp 0 0
/mnt/server/path/subfolder /mnt/share none bind,_netdev,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.requires=/mnt/server/path 0 0

This mounts an NFS path into a folder, then bind mounts a folder within
it to /mnt/share.  I then use RequiresMountsFor=/mnt/share, since it's
the second mount that has to happen before the systemd unit can start.

The mounts work (they always mount in the correct sequence) it's just
that RequiresMountsFor= doesn't seem to like this set up.

Cheers,
Adam.