Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:32:22 +0100 | | From | Gábor Lénárt <> | | Subject | Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release) |
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:45:39PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: > >last thing that gets run. There is just no reason for this. We should > >start X and initialize the display and get the login prompt up there > >ASAP, and let the system acquire the DHCP lease and start sendmail and > >apache and get the date from the NTP server *in the background while I > >am logging in*. It's not rocket science. > > Such a system needs a drastically different bootup process than > currently > exists, including the ability to specify init-script dependencies. > (Like
Ok, so see Gentoo. Exactly fits your needs, it seems ;-) Dependencies are supported, even paralell execution of init scripts are supported by default design (you need to change only one setting to do this, IMHO, in /etc/conf.d/rc). So it is already solved if you talking about the paralell execution with dependency info in init scripts ...
Also the smf ability of Solaris10 seems to be interesting, but I don't want to talk about it, since I have no time to see it in action, I've only read about it, so ...
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