On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 08:55 -0400, Tim Daly 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? > > > >Gentoo, instead of numeric order of service startup which we have in > >fedora, implements service dependencies. With dependencies it is pure > >implementation detail to have system startup in parallel. > > > >I doubt if anyone with @redhat.com suffix will consider reworking > >initscripts to mind service dependencies ... > > sure sounds like a job for makefile. even with numbered tasks it should > be possible to construct a makefile that would handle it. indeed, i > believe pmake will handle the parallelization issues. Makefile isn't the way to go, it has the same problem as shell scripts: error reporting and fine-grained control isn't very easy. With something like D-BUS involved it's far easier to e.g. have GUI for progress meters, starting/stopping services, display meaningful error messages, and so forth. You also avoid some of the yucky issues such as stuck PID files. Basically it's a lot more deterministic and extensible. Havoc
