On Dec 9, 2014, at 3:30 PM, awiddersh...@hotmail.com wrote: > > Thanks for the feedback and suggestion. I'm fairly certain (haven't actually > tried though) that adding iscsi-disk.mount or even iscsi.target to the > "After=" of the MySQL service would probably solve this problem I don't think > it's a good solution. > > Just to start, I don't think the MySQL package includes anything about the > remote-fs.target at all. This particular MySQL instance/unit file was home > grown to include that since it's known it will be running on the iSCSI disk. > > The reason I don't feel like adding iscsi-disk.mount is a good solution is > because that is a dynamically generated file made by systemd when it looks at > fstab. That means if I choose to change my mount point from /iscsi-disk to > /foo-bar for example having iscsi.mount as an "After=" will no longer work. > > As for adding iscsi.service as an "After=", I also feel like that is > inadequate. What if the underlying storage becomes NFS instead of iSCSI? The > whole point of the special systemd remote-fs.target is to handle this and > ordering properly yet clearly something isn't right here. > > While adding these new orderings to the MySQL unit file will help make MySQL > less upset it doesn't change the fact that it appears that /iscsi-disk is > being unmounted after iscsi.service is stopped which can cause all sorts of > file system problems. > > Again, I appreciate the attempt at a solution but there is something else > wrong here that needs a more concrete fix. > >
If you find that you think something needs to change in the open-iscsi unit files, please post it here. I think it would be great if the open-iscsi tree contained a set of systemd unit files that worked for all distributions. Right now I think each distro has their own slightly-modified flavor. -- The Lee-Man Prepare to be unprepared. -- Me -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to open-iscsi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to open-iscsi@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
