[dm-devel] [PATCH 5/6] multipathd: Fix multipathd stopping on shutdown

[Benjamin Marzinski]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:31:25PM +0000, Martin Wilck wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-12-18 at 17:06 -0600, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> > According to man "systemd.special"
> > 
> > "shutdown.target: ... Services that shall be terminated on system
> > shutdown shall add Conflicts= and Before= dependencies to this unit
> > for
> > their service unit, which is implicitly done when
> > DefaultDependencies=yes is set (the default)."
> > 
> > multipathd.service sets DefaultDependencies=no and includes the
> > Conflits= dependency, but not the Before= one. This can cause
> > multipathd
> > to continue running past when it is supposed to during shutdown.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck at suse.com>

Martin, I noticed that this commit didn't make it into your queue
branch. I assume it's just an oversight. Right?

-Ben

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