IDEA: Shortening boot-time

[Michael Favia]

seth vidal wrote:

>No, Nfs mounted (or afs, for that matter) dirs could be simply be
>automounted. You'd have to know:
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> 1. where the user's homedir is (which, of course, we do)
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Done.

> 2. follow that path out to figure out what controls it: afs, autofs,
>nfs, cifs, etc.
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>
How difficult is this and long does this take?

> 3. determine what to do in that case.
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Load all relevant network and other required stuff if requires (stack 
like queue). Hell make it load all of them if it detects anyof them if 
that simplifies the backend.

People like me get speed benefit people with nfs suffer time delay as 
deserved for utilizing network based setups. Seems simple enough to me. 
No one need to reply but i really like the idea of a dependency based 
invocation. It just makes sense as the most elegant solution. But 
perhaps i am mistaken. Maybe someday there will be one engine that 
solves deps quickly and powers both my bootup and my invocation of yum 
and rpm :).

-mf