On Wed, 05.10.11 10:17, Horst H. von Brand (vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 04.10.11 21:01, JB (jb.1234abcd@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > Results interpretation. > > > ----------------------- > > > Knoppix won by a wide margin, while: > > > - Knoppix having microknoppix fast-parallel boot (based on SysV/LSB scripts) > > > and DE with low resources usage and tailored for desktops > > > > > - Fedora having systemd parallel boot and DE tailored for small and simple > > > devices > > > ^^^^^ huh? Fedora is not tailored for that. Would be great of it it > > was, but that's simply not the case. > > > We install LVM and iSCSI and all kinds of other enterprisey stuff > > on even the smallest netbook. [...] > > This is a great writeup. Why don't you add it to your "systemd for > sysadmins" series? And/or some page on boot speedup in the Fedora wiki? > > Thanks for the pointers! Harald posted a blog story about this a while back: http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/fedora-15-8-services-you-can-most-likely-disable http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/fedora-15-boot-optimization I guess we could do an updated version for F16 of that since a couple of thing changed since then. For example the SELinux policy got updated now so that initrd-less boots do not trigger selinux faults anymore. In fact, initrd-less boots work really nicely nowadays, the only two missing bit to maybe make it a default is basically that a) the kernel cannot boot into a partition by UUID, only by logic name which is a bit fragile [1] and b) Plymouth currently doesn't cope nicely with it since it's called before the video devices are probed if used without an initrd. Lennart [1] What the kernel can do nowadays is mount a GUID partition by the GUID, which might be a pretty good replacement -- at least on machines which have a GUID partition table. -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
