[Maximiliano Curia] > After Marga's talk in Debconf6, I've been working in a program that > starts the initscripts in parallel [1]. It's similar in some aspects > to startpar (part of sysvinit package) but with two main goals: it > must work, it must be as little intrusive as possible (in respect to > the scripts behavior).
What is the speed impact compared to the non-parallel boot and a boot with startpar and shell parallelization? > The idea is to have a working parallel boot system, which could be > accompanied by something similar to insserv[2], to have the smallest > possible boot time. > > The current version is almost a proof of concept, but works quite > well with non-interactive initscripts. It still does not handle the > input for scripts like checkroot.sh, scripts that prompt for a > passphrase, or similar. Anyway, I'll be working in the support of > interactive scripts for the next few days. > > It's not ready to be released, nor to be included in Debian, but I > would really like to have some eyes over it, some comments and > suggestions. > > I might make a package for this soon, but I still have to figure out how to > modify /etc/init.d/rc from outside the sysvinit package. > > [1] The darcs repository is available in http://maxy.com.ar/~maxy/darcs/rcpar > [2] insserv uses the new lsb initscripts tags to reorder them, but it's too > SUSE based As Martin comments, the initscripts-ng project is a better place for this topic. CC to it, and lets continue the discussion there. A similar system to yours was proposed by Olivier Sessink. Check out The thread starting at <URL:http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/initscripts-ng-devel/2005-November/000225.html> Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
