FC6 faster boot

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 10:15 +0200, dragoran wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 10:03 +0200, dragoran wrote:
> >   
> >> Before FC4 was released there was a disussion about how to make the boot 
> >> process faster.
> >> But until now (FC5/FC6-rawhide) nothing has been done.
> >>     
> >
> > Why do you say so? Many things have been iteratively improved. The
> > booting speed is much better now. Try http://bootchart.sf.net or
> > http://people.redhat.com/berrange/systemtap/bootprobe/ to measure this. 
> >
> >
> >   
> sure it has improved but not that much, for me FC4 booted faster than 
> FC5 (because of early login)

Early login wasnt enabled by default so not many users would see that.
If you can contribute towards fixing the problems in early login, that
might help.  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151952

> upon during the
> > review process. 
> I know this, because I am working on getting it working too (adding 
> selinux support).

Lets get it working reasonably well and include it in extras-devel as a
package that users can provide feedback easily. Replacing a init system
is not a easy decision and boot speed shouldnt be the primary motivation
to do that. 


> > If it ends up in Fedora Extras first, it would be easier
> > to check how well it works and later move into Fedora Core if suitable.
> >
> >   
> rawhide is the place to test new technolgies, if it turns out to be a 
> bad idea we can remove it before FC6,
> but extras is not the place for such apps.

extras-devel is the equivalent of rawhide for Fedora Extras. It can very
well be used to test new technologies. The problem with importing it
into rawhide is that the external community cannot work directly work on
packaging anymore at this point. 


Rahul