systemd-machine-id-commit.service - Commit a transient machine ID to disk
systemd-machine-id-commit.service
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.
systemd(1),
systemd-machine-id-setup(1),
machine-id(5),
systemd-firstboot(1)