Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261645AbVBOHcr (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:32:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261646AbVBOHcl (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:32:41 -0500 Received: from b.relay.invitel.net ([62.77.203.4]:64412 "EHLO b.relay.invitel.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261645AbVBOHcj (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:32:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:32:22 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-2?B?R+Fib3IgTOlu4XJ0?= To: Kyle Moffett Cc: Lee Revell , Patrick McFarland , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tim Bird , Prakash Punnoor , Paolo Ciarrocchi , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Greg KH , Roland Dreier Subject: Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release) Message-ID: <20050215073222.GB26950@vega.lgb.hu> Reply-To: lgb@lgb.hu References: <20050211011609.GA27176@suse.de> <1108354011.25912.43.camel@krustophenia.net> <4d8e3fd305021400323fa01fff@mail.gmail.com> <42106685.40307@arcor.de> <1108422240.28902.11.camel@krustophenia.net> <524qge20e2.fsf@topspin.com> <1108424720.32293.8.camel@krustophenia.net> <42113F6B.1080602@am.sony.com> <1108430245.32293.16.camel@krustophenia.net> <4B923A81-7EF3-11D9-86CC-000393ACC76E@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4B923A81-7EF3-11D9-86CC-000393ACC76E@mac.com> X-Operating-System: vega Linux 2.6.10-2-686 i686 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1327 Lines: 28 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 ... Also the smf ability of Solaris10 seems to be interesting, but I don't want to talk about it, since I have no time to see it in action, I've only read about it, so ... - G?bor - 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/