Chris W. wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to better understand the inner workings of systemd. Just having > finished a LFS install on a test server, I thought LFS 7.2 might be a > good basis for this. My goal was to eventually replace SysVinit > completely with systemd. I fully expected lots of things to break, but > was pleasantly surprised, that getting systemd to work was not all that > hard. I started out with a guide from Lemon Lime which he posted on this > list a year ago. Because LFS 7.2 is using a customized non-standard > installation of Systemd/Udevd, additional steps were required. Systemd > has matured quite a bit since last year and more distributions are using > it, among them Arch Linux.
OTOH, Gentoo is creating a udev fork. > Having lots of unit files available from > other distributions, makes the switch a lot easier. > > I have everything working on my test server with a Plone CMS installed > and find the built-in monitoring and logging capabilities of systemd > quite remarkable. Did you ever run 'mount' from the command line? > Bootup and shutdown times are considerably faster than > with SysVinit. Do you have any data? How fast can you get from grub to the login prompt using systemd? sysvinit? What hardware are you using? > The following guide was put together as I documented the > steps I took, and is intended help others to get started with systemd. I > have put it in a similar format as instructions in the BLFS book to make > it easier to apply. > > I hope you'll find this guide helpful and would welcome your comments > and suggestions. > > Chris > > > How to install Systemd-193 on LFS > ================================= Very well written. Slightly reformatted, it would be very nice as a hint. I do think the set of instructions is longer than anything else in LFS/BLFS. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
