On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 12:24 -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 18:35 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > given the 7 second disk read time... 10 seconds is a bit unrealistic. > > One of the critical paths will be getting an IP address and mounting the > > /home dir over nfs... ethernet negotiation can easily be 10 seconds > > already with gige, and DHCP is depending on that to complete before it > > can get a lease. > > But if you're stalling on network I/O, we could run the things that > don't need the network to be there at the same time. There's enough of > it that I don't think dhcp should actually delay booting, if it's async. > > Of course, if you're using NetworkManager, it already is... but there're > some kinks in that that still need smoothing over, like the part of > ntpd's initscript that does the initial clock sync never getting run > while the network is up. I think that in a NetworkManager world, you want NetworkManager to control ntpd entirely. And probably a number of other services too, at least by default.
