On Mon, 15 Oct 2018, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Note, I can with authority, as the person introducing dependency based > boot and shutdown ordering in Debian, report that insserv were not > introduced for parallell boot, nor for boot speed. It was introduced to > correct broken boot and shutdown ordering using a system wide reordering > of every scripts at once. This was needed as it proved impossible to > get every package maintainer involved in a boot sequence reordering to […]
Ah, okay, thanks for the explanation. > By all means, feel free to try to reintroduce the static sequence number > ordering again, if you believe it is a sensible way forward. I With this extra information, I do not believe that any more. > Just wanted to clear any misunderstanding about the use of insserv being > related to speed and running scripts in parallell. It is not true. > Insserv provided correct ordering, and a byproduct was that correct > ordering made it possible to run scripts in parallell for higher speed > using startpar. OK. I was using file-rc at the time those changes were introduced, so they hit me only much later when file-rc was no longer viable at all somehow, which is why I lacked that background info. bye, //mirabilos -- tarent solutions GmbH Rochusstraße 2-4, D-53123 Bonn • http://www.tarent.de/ Tel: +49 228 54881-393 • Fax: +49 228 54881-235 HRB 5168 (AG Bonn) • USt-ID (VAT): DE122264941 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Stefan Barth, Kai Ebenrett, Boris Esser, Alexander Steeg
