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[PATCH] services: nfs: Require file-systems to be mounted before starting NFS shepherd service.

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Message #26 received at 43257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 43257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#43257] [PATCH] services: nfs: Require file-systems to be
 mounted before starting NFS shepherd service.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 16:47:14 +0200

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> skribis:

> Hi Ludo,
>
> On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 09:02:09 +0200
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Any suggestions?  :-)
>> 
>> The only think I could think of is transparently adding a dummy root
>> file system for the purposes of ‘shepherd-graph’, but it’s not
>> necessarily a good idea either.
>
> It depends on whether we want to have developer tools--but if we do, it would
> be nice to be more forgiving on some errors (for example have a "developer"
> switch that would add missing fields if they are harmless and don't change
> the result.  Or maybe just have a procedure available that would do that
> which the dev could add a call to with "-e").
>
> That said, not sure that it's a good idea.
>
> I'm just always logging weird things so we actually can see them.
>
> It's not necessarily something we can (or should) fix :-)
>
> However, this %nfs-os is used almost unchanged for marionette-operating-system.
>
> So I got this idea:
>
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix system shepherd-graph -e '((@ (gnu tests) marionette-operating-system) (@@ (gnu tests nfs) %nfs-os)))'
> gnu/tests.scm:161:2: error: missing root file system
>
> ... doesn't work either.  Well now that's weird.
>
> That operating-system is eventually passed to "virtual-machine".
>
> So that means we can't use shepherd-graph on VMs?

No: that just means that ‘virtualized-operating-system’ adds a root file
system transparently, which is why we can afford not providing one in
OSes that are only meant to be used through ‘guix system vm’.

But ‘shepherd-graph’ doesn’t know about that: it takes your OS as is and
show you the info.

Hope that makes sense!

Ludo’.

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