systemd (Was Re: tmpfs for strategic directories)

[Ola Thoresen]

On 26. mai 2010 14:16, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Wed, 26 May 2010 12:42:13 +0200
> drago01<drago01 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Casey Dahlin<cdahlin at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 05:45:07PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 25.05.10 10:21, Casey Dahlin (cdahlin at redhat.com) wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> 3) Cutting down on the forking by replacing some of the shell
>>> scripts... cool 3a) With C code... really?
>>
>> This does make a lot of sense to me, initscripts being scripts is a
>> major slowdown factor
>> by itself.
>>
>> It is not like you want to edit the scripts all the time, so there is
>> no reason for them being scripts.
>
> While you don't edit them *all* the time, it is something that is done
> regularly, and it is something most admins can do with ease.
> Turn them in a C program and you left admins out in the cold, most of
> them.


Would it not be more fruitful to discuss _why_ you (we?) need to edit 
the initscripts?  Describe what functionality is missing or wrong in the 
default ones?

And then see if the same problems exists with a new solution (be it 
systemd or upstart or something else) and how they can be fixed within 
_that_ init-context?

I guess most of us don't edit initscripts for the sake of editing 
initscripts, but to achieve something that is not possible (or at least 
far more difficult to do) with the scripts provided by the distro.

If these things simply work out of the box with the new world (like 
reordering startup of daemons to make sure network is up because you 
need LDAP to authenticate the startup of some other daemon), or they are 
moot (making sure something is mounted to access some tools that is 
needed by the script) then there is no need to edit any scripts, ant 
this whole debate is quite meaningless...






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