On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 18:31, Jack Coates wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 12:57, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 08:53, Jack Coates wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 07:53, Eric Huff wrote: > > > > > There's an interesting article at > > > > > > > > > > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html?ca=dgr-lnxw04BootFaster > > > > > > > > That is an interesting article. > > > > > > The /. discussion also pointed to a more sophisticated setup in > > > Gentoo... in both cases, this is more work than the average admin or > > > poweruser can justify, but it would be nifty if the distros did it for > > > you. The flipside is that it makes understanding and troubleshooting the > > > process a little tougher. > > > > Tougher than the spaghetti code we have now? I've also played with the > > Gentoo system.... it's ok. but not as earth shaking as the slash > > dotters make it seem. This however has the advantage of fitting in with > > existing software. No need to rewrite all of the programs inits. > > > > I'll buy Gentoo not being the best thing since sliced bread :-) It > looked to me like they're just adding some lines to the startup script > defining relationships though, which isn't bad. Akin to chkconfig in > fact. > > But I don't think SysV init is that bad -- not compared to FreeBSD 4.1, > for instance, which put my head into tailspin. The hardware detection / > devfs stuff in Mandrake is black voodoo too. >
5.x is much nicer in FreeBSD. But for me coming from BSD to Linux I've found the long long long long bash script for init to be a nightmare. Basically you are right it's checkconfig without the features *grin* I wasn't impressed with Gentoo's init. Didn't find it that different. It's just as long just as convulsive. Of all the points of failure it is the most vulnerable to even the smallest "oops". James
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