Monday November 29, 2004
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Monday November 29, 2004
Where have I heard this before?
Catching up on some blog feeds this weekend, I followed a link from Havoc Pennington's blog to this post on fedora-devel-list about investigating boot and desktop load time.
While there does appear to be some interesting insight into the process and speeding up the loading of the interesting files, my attention was particularly drawn to this suggestion for improvement:
d. The whole init(1) procedure seems dated; perhaps something more modern built on top of D-BUS is the right choice - SystemServices by Seth Nickell comes to mind [1]. Ideally services to be started would have dependencies such as 1) don't start the gdm service before /usr/bin/gdm is available; 2) the SSH service would only be active when NetworkManager says there is a network connection; /usr from LABEL=/usr would only be mounted when there is a volume with that label and so forth. Also, such a system would of course have support for LSB init scripts.hmm...the basic ideas sound strangely familiar for some reason...
Posted at 12:09AM Nov 29, 2004 by Alan Coopersmith in Solaris |
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