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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2013-01-14 20:37:12 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2013-01-14 20:37:12 +0100
commite5e991a11c7749f8cb424e99ca4206264b0cf836 (patch)
tree357d92420ce67f2562599ff8a07cceee9a5c0a2c
parent6eebcda6a260cae878e7329b457c80b53bdc4b49 (diff)
core: document that JoinControllers= might be ineffective in initrd uses
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875531
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.conf.xml15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.conf.xml b/man/systemd.conf.xml
index a6be932c7..da3c7f778 100644
--- a/man/systemd.conf.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.conf.xml
@@ -131,13 +131,26 @@
separated controller names, in order
to allow multiple joined
hierarchies. Defaults to
'cpu,cpuacct'. Pass an empty string to
ensure that systemd mounts all
controllers in separate
- hierarchies.</para></listitem>
+ hierarchies.</para>
+
+ <para>Note that this option is only
+ applied once, at very early boot. If
+ you use an initial RAM disk (initrd)
+ that uses systemd it might hence be
+ necessary to rebuild the initrd if
+ this option is changed, and make sure
+ the new configuration file is included
+ in it. Otherwise the initrd might
+ mount the controllers in different
+ configuration than intended, and the
+ main system cannot remount them
+ anymore.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>RuntimeWatchdogSec=</varname></term>
<term><varname>ShutdownWatchdogSec=</varname></term>