From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [Xen-users] [TestDay] minor bug + possible configuration bug 4.5rc4 archlinux Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:24:41 +0000 Message-ID: <1421144681.28776.69.camel@citrix.com> References: <1421074733.26317.91.camel@citrix.com> <20150113084502.GA7008@aepfle.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150113084502.GA7008@aepfle.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Olaf Hering Cc: Wei Liu , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Doug McMillan , Ian Jackson , xen-devel , "xen-users@lists.xenproject.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, 2015-01-13 at 09:45 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > @devs -- we obviously need to do something about this (too late for 4.5, > > but for 4.6 + backport). Perhaps there is some alternative systemd > > construction which disassociates the actual path from the abstract > > service "xenstored dir mounted"? > > I dont think we can do anything about this systemd brain damage. Either > it gets its Where= from such line within the file, or it gets its Where= > from the filename. In which case it has to stop looking at a Where= > line. We either need to make XEN_LIB_STORED be hardcoded to /var/lib/xenstored (i.e. ignoring localstatedir) or we need to make the systemd units reflect the --localstatedir the user provided or we need to remove --localstatedir as a user selectable option. (the first is probably easiest, the second is probably more correct and the third seems like overkill to me) > In any case, its wrong to use --localstatedir=/tmpfs-mount-point because > that means all mails in the spool subdirectory are in danger. If thats > the mindset of ArchLinux all we can do is to recommend to stop using it > for any serious task. Xen doesn't include any sort of MUA, so that seems like hyperbole to me. Not that I would recommend configuring Xen with localstatedir on /run either mind. Ian.