Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:34:56 +0100 | From | Paolo Ciarrocchi <> | Subject | Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release) |
| |
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:32:22 +0100, Gábor Lénárt <lgb@lgb.hu> wrote: > 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 ...
So... why is Gentoo the only distro the uses parallel execution of init scripts ?
-- Paolo <paolo dot ciarrocchi at gmail dot com> msn: paolo407@hotmail.com hello: ciarrop - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |