I searched the list archives with no obvious results.
I have an application that runs completely from a Spectrum Scale filesystem that I would like to start automatically on boot, obviously after the SS filesystem mounts, on multiple nodes. There are groups of nodes for dev, test, and production, (separate clusters) and the target filesystems are different between them (and are named differently, so the paths are different), but all nodes have an identical soft link from root (/) that points to the environment-specific path. (see below for details)
My first effort before I did any research was to try to simply use a directive of After=gpfs.service which anyone who has tried it will know that the gpfs.service returns as "started" far in advance (and independently of) when filesystems are actually mounted.
What I want is to be able to deploy a systemd service-unit and path-unit pair of files (that are as close to identical as possible across the environments) that wait for /appbin/builds/ to be available (/[dev|tst|prd]01/ to be mounted) and then starts the application. The problem is that systemd.path units, specifically the 'PathExists=' directive, don't follow symbolic links, so I would need to customize the path unit file for each environment with the full (real) path. There are other differences between the environments that I believe I can handle by specifying an EnvironmentFile directive -- but that would come from the SS filesystem so as to be a single reference point, so it can't help with the path unit.
Any suggestions are welcome and appreciated.
dev:(path names have been slightly generalized, but the structure is identical)
SS filesystem: /dev01
full path: /dev01/app-bin/user-tree/builds/
soft link: /appbin/ -> /dev01/app-bin/user-tree/
test:
SS filesystem: /tst01
full path: /tst01/app-bin/user-tree/builds/
soft link: /appbin/ -> /tst01/app-bin/user-tree/
prod:
SS filesystem: /prd01
full path: /prd01/app-bin/user-tree/builds/
soft link: /appbin/ -> /prd01/app-bin/user-tree/
Stephen R. Wall Buchanan
Sr. IT Specialist
IBM Data & AI North America Government Expert Labs
+1 (571) 299-4601
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Sr. IT Specialist
IBM Data & AI North America Government Expert Labs
+1 (571) 299-4601
[email protected]
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