Paralell startup

[bill peck]

Could some of the ordering be determined by the dependancies that are
already present in the rpm database?

Going further we really need services to start/stop/restart based on
Dbus messages.  I want autofs to be notifed and reload its maps when
the network comes up.


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:55:38 -0400, Tim Daly <daly at rio.sci.ccny.cuny.edu> wrote:
> >> I am hearing much good from the gentoo camp about paralell startup, and
> >> how it brings down boot times to about 30 secounds. Is this possible to
> >> do with fedora as well?
> >
> >Gentoo, instead of numeric order of service startup which we have in
> >fedora, implements service dependencies. With dependencies it is pure
> >implementation detail to have system startup in parallel.
> >
> >I doubt if anyone with @redhat.com suffix will consider reworking
> >initscripts to mind service dependencies ...
> 
> sure sounds like a job for makefile. even with numbered tasks it should
> be possible to construct a makefile that would handle it. indeed, i
> believe pmake will handle the parallelization issues.
> 
> Tim Daly
> 
> 
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