09.06.2014 20:11, Kay Sievers wrote:
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Alexander E. Patrakov
<patra...@gmail.com> wrote:
09.06.2014 19:26, Kai Krakow wrote:
Alexander E. Patrakov <patra...@gmail.com> schrieb:
I have upgraded systemd from 212 to 213 on two my Gentoo boxes, and see
the same regression here: zram swap space does not get activated. It
looks like systemd tries to activate swap before the RUN+=mkswap part of
the udev rule finishes.
Here are the relevant lines from my configuration files. Are they indeed
supposed to work, or were working only by pure luck?
I switched to zswap because of this. This also looks more appropriate for
my
workload. Maybe that's an option? At least if you do have a physical swap
device (and in that cased I'd prefer zswap over zram).
Please don't persuade me to hide or tolerate bugs. Even if zswap is more
appropriate, I would like to get a comment on my zram issue from systemd
maintainers.
I don't know of anybody working on systemd, using this
horrible-to-configure facility.
I have no idea how stuff should work, but it *might* need some
ENV{SYSTEMD_READY}="0" fiddling.
Let's decompose the question then. Maybe you know how at least one of
the steps should work.
1. Is it correct that swap units created from /etc/fstab have
dependencies on the devices mentioned in the first column? What kind of
dependencies?
2. At what point in time (just after getting the uevent, after setting
sysfs attributes, after running the RUN programs) is the dependency on
the device node considered "satisfied"?
Module parameters to configure devices, sysfs attributes to
re-configure pre-created "dead devices", ...; given the fact, that it
is relatively recent technology, such terribly outdated and
have-always-been-broken concepts should never have been merged into
the kernel.
A valid observation, but still - the semantics need to be documented
(even if the document says "undefined") in systemd.device(5) or
elsewhere WRT dependencies and ordering.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
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