[OE-core] [PATCH] systemd-compat-units: drop machineid.service

[Burton, Ross]

On 18 December 2013 15:42, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>> Why is that bad?  In the read-only-rootfs case you can either pre-seed
>> the machine ID at image creation time (if a single machine ID across
>> all instances is reasonable) or let systemd create a fresh one on
>> every boot in /run/machine-id and bind-mount /etc/machine-id to it.
>
> ... every boot you get a new machine ID and hence a new journal ID, which sucks. We can
> debate if that sucks more or less than having duplicate machine IDs across the boards on
> your desk :)

Out of the box, the journal is in a tmpfs, so it disappears anyway.

Either way, this service file isn't useful.

Ross