The /var/lib/private/foo -> /var/lib/foo symlink for StateDirectory and DynamicUser is set up on the host filesystem, before the mount namespacing is brought up. If an empty /var/lib is used, to ensure the service does not see other services data, the symlink is then not available despite /var/lib/private being set up as expected. Make a list of symlinks that need to be set up, and create them after all the namespaced filesystems have been created, but before any eventual read-only switch is flipped.
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