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> Have you ever had pid 1 (systemd or any other init) crash? No, I have not. But I have seen how systemd gracefully failed to boot system to login, with good l

• geofft 8y ago
  Oh, to be clear I'm real mad about how systemd fails boot if (say) one of your filesystems is unavailable and makes you log in with a root password to fix it. But OP was asserting that systemd crashes under normal operation because its pid 1 is too fragile, which is very different. At scale I already expect that there's a chance a machine won't come back if I reboot it - it's annoying if I can't ssh in, but, well, I already lost a disk I care about and it won't return to service and I need to fix it anyway. (And it's an easy fix, just add "nofail" to fstab.) At scale I don't expect init to crash under normal operation.