On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:49:09AM +0200, Michael Lipp wrote: > Hi, > > I have some PCs where I have to store the Linux root file system as a > large file in Window's NTFS file system. Everything boots fine. The NTFS > file system is mounted as ntfs-3g in the initial ramfs as /host, the > loopback device is created (using /host/Linux/image.img) and used as root. > > However, the system doesn't shut down cleanly, usually it simply hangs. > I admit that it isn't easy to solve this situation on shutdown. When > executing findmnt in the running Linux system, the only "hint" is > /dev/loop0 being mounted as root. The NTFS mount doesn't appear at all. > It only shows in systemctl status, which starts with > > init.scope > |. 1 /sbin/init > |- 155 mount.ntfs-3g -o permissions /dev/sda2 /host > > Is it possible to configure systemd-shutdown somehow (e.g. hook > scripts)? Or do I have to write my own systemd-shutdown?
You have to patch ntfs-3g to marks itself as non-killable root storage provider (with '@'): https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/RootStorageDaemons/ -- Tomasz Torcz ,,(...) today's high-end is tomorrow's embedded processor.'' xmpp: zdzich...@chrome.pl -- Mitchell Blank on LKML _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
