Making Fedora boot faster

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:09:34 +0930
Tim wrote:

> > The real time waster is that piece of hardware you call a hard disk
> > drive. All of the services started up cause some heavy disk I/O that
> > no rotating drive can handle very well.  
> 
> Or, the real time waster is loads of services starting up.  And services
> that take an age to read their config files, and depend on other
> services...

In my observation the real time waster is the initrd processing
desperately trying to enumerate all the raids and lvms and wot-not
that I don't have on my system :-).