Bug 309001

Summary:	Service netfs provides $local_fs
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Thomas Woerner <twoerner>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Thomas Woerner 2007-09-27 13:47:56 UTC

Description of problem:
Why is $local_fs provided by /etc/init.d/netfs. netfs mounts network filesystems
($remote_fs).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-8.56-1

How reproducible:
Always

Actual results:
All services, which depend on $local_fs get delayed after netfs.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2007-09-27 14:06:53 UTC

1) it mounts any local file systems that are layered on top of network filesystems
2) as anything that needs things from /usr needs to require $remote_fs anyway,
it all is lost in the wash. (See
http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/facilname.html_

Comment 2 Thomas Woerner 2007-09-28 09:47:17 UTC

Shouldn't rc.sysinit provide $local_fs as it mounts local filesystems? As
rc.sysinit is no init script, $local_fs should probably be provided by a placebo
init script (S00) or by init itself.

As netfs requires networking and network filesystems to embed local filesystems
with the _netdev option, I'd suggest that netfs provides $remote_fs only.

I think that the line '[ "${NETWORKING}" = "no" ] && exit 0' should be replaced
by 'Requires: $network' in the LSB header (or at least added to be LSB conform).

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2007-09-28 13:48:23 UTC

No, you could have /usr network and /usr/local local - netfs is the script that
ends up mounting /usr/local. Moreover, any script that is requiring $localfs for
/usr needs to end up requiring $remote_fs anyways. So there really isn't
anything that can be done in the current framework.

Comment 4 Thomas Woerner 2007-09-28 14:20:14 UTC

iptables and ip6tables needs the environment, which is prepared and needed by
rc.sysinit (which mounts local filesystems).
There are also other services, which need to access files in /etc, /bin, /sbin
and /var, which do not depend on networking: e.g. cpuspeed, kudzu and
readahead_early.

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2007-09-28 14:22:28 UTC

Then... don't have a dep. /etc, /bin, and /sbin are implied, and you can get
away without a specific requirement for /var.