On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:50:36AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Thu, July 18, 2013 09:15, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> - Fast startup > > > > I thought everyone claimed (including systemd supporters) that this was > > a "teenager side effect" which we didn't care much about. > > Definitely not. Debian should care about fast boot a lot. Rebooting a > system, planned or not, is downtime. If we can reduce the amount of > downtime that Debian systems experience, that is a big win. > > Someone mentioned server POST that take minutes of boot time anyway. True. > However, this ignores that the world and their dog are moving to virtual > machines en masse for hosting their services. The boot times of vm's are > negligible and we now have many systems rebooting in < 1 min. This is a > very big advantage for professional and large scale installations, and the > more that time is reduced, the more advantageous it will be for these > users.
It's also worth noting that kexec-based reboots (if they work properly) can eliminate POST time, but still has to go through the whole init run. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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