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SYSTEMD−MACHINE−ID−COMMIT.SERVICE

NAME

systemd-machine-id-commit.service − Commit a transient machine ID to disk

SYNOPSIS

systemd−machine−id−commit.service

DESCRIPTION

systemd−machine−id−commit.service is an early boot service responsible for committing transient /etc/machine−id files to a writable disk file system. See machine-id(5) for more information about machine IDs.

This service is started after local−fs.target in case /etc/machine−id is a mount point of its own (usually from a memory file system such as "tmpfs") and /etc is writable. The service will invoke systemd−machine−id−setup −−commit, which writes the current transient machine ID to disk and unmount the /etc/machine−id file in a race−free manner to ensure that file is always valid and accessible for other processes. See systemd-machine-id-setup(1) for details.

The main use case of this service are systems where /etc/machine−id is read−only and initially not initialized. In this case, the system manager will generate a transient machine ID file on a memory file system, and mount it over /etc/machine−id, during the early boot phase. This service is then invoked in a later boot phase, as soon as /etc has been remounted writable and the ID may thus be committed to disk to make it permanent.

SEE ALSO

systemd(1), systemd-machine-id-setup(1), machine-id(5), systemd-firstboot(1)

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