> longer boot times don't matter because they only boot their servers once > a year. ..... Or wont use Fedora in favor of RHEL. --- Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 18:10 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > I am hearing much good from the gentoo camp about paralell startup, and > > how it brings down boot times to about 30 secounds. Is this possible to > > do with fedora as well? > > Yes, and we should do it. However, it requires lots of changes to the > initscripts :) > > There are a number of projects that have done parallel startup on *NIX > machines. I believe one or two of the BSD variants use parallel startup > and dependencies in their scripts. Seth Nickell has some writeups on a > new startup script architecture as well. > > Nobody is making the noise necessary to do anything about anything > though. Somebody needs the time and energy to champion this cause. The > current Fedora initscripts packages are also very, very nasty and not > well split out by function. You'll encounter resistance too from people > who don't care about Desktop OS stuff under Linux and who think that > longer boot times don't matter because they only boot their servers once > a year. > > Dan > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com
