The maintenance of sysvinit in Debian are now done by a group working through alioth, project pkg-sysvinit. The last weeks I've been working on the package, fixing quite a few bugs and adding a few features as well. The latest version have special handling for laptops, uses the lsb-base functions for output, support SE/Linux, have experimental support for parallel booting, and include init.d dependency information readable by the insserv package.
In short, this is the best version of sysvinit ever, and I would love to hear some test reports for the parallel booting stuff. To enable it (be aware that it might break your boot!), insert this line in /etc/default/rcS: CONCURRENCY=shell This will make the boot script in the sysv-rc package start all init.d scripts with the save order value for a given runlevel at the same time, and then wait for all of them to complete. The output will be a mess, of course. Does it work for you? It works for me, on my test machines. If it does not work, it is probably because the boot sequence in debian is broken. Script depending on each other are started at the same level, and parallel booting thus break down. To avoid this problem, you can use the insserv package. But it too need correct and up-to-date dependency information. Dependency info for several init.d scripts are included, but I am sure there are more scripts out there. If information is missing, you can add it directly in the init.d script in /etc/init.d/, or add override files in /usr/share/insserv/overrides/ or /etc/insserv/overrides/. The format is the LSB init.d comment format, documented on <URL:http://wiki.debian.net/?LSBInitScripts>. In the sysvinit source, there is an experimental feature to serialize the script output (startpar). This proved to be unstable, and is not included in the binaries. It will need more work before it is safe to use. When we have correct dependency information in the init.d scripts of most packages in debian, we can start reordering the default boot sequence to get maximum speedup due to parallel boot. And I hope the readahead packages are ready at this time, so we get the quickest boot in town. :) _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
