Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 10:15 +0200, dragoran wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 10:03 +0200, dragoran wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Before FC4 was released there was a disussion about how to make
the
boot
>>> process faster.
>>> But until now (FC5/FC6-rawhide) nothing has been done.
>>>
>>>
>> Why do you say so? Many things have been iteratively improved. The
>> booting speed is much better now. Try
http://bootchart.sf.net or
>>
http://people.redhat.com/berrange/systemtap/bootprobe/ to measure
this.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> sure it has improved but not that much, for me FC4 booted faster than
> FC5 (because of early login)
>
Early login wasnt enabled by default so not many users would see that.
If you can contribute towards fixing the problems in early login, that
might help.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151952
as far as I can see the only real problem are nfs mounted /usr or /home
dirs.
that can be solved by(starting network) and mounting them before
starting gdm.
a simple script could look into fstab to see if this is needed.
or did I miss anything?
> upon during the
>
>> review process.
>>
> I know this, because I am working on getting it working too (adding
> selinux support).
>
Lets get it working reasonably well and include it in extras-devel as a
package that users can provide feedback easily. Replacing a init system
is not a easy decision and boot speed shouldnt be the primary motivation
to do that.
the problem now is upstream, some changes are needed to get selinux working.
it does not have to replace sysvinit you can have both installed at the
same time.
>> If it ends up in Fedora Extras first, it would be easier
>> to check how well it works and later move into Fedora Core if suitable.
>>
>>
>>
> rawhide is the place to test new technolgies, if it turns out to be a
> bad idea we can remove it before FC6,
> but extras is not the place for such apps.
>
extras-devel is the equivalent of rawhide for Fedora Extras. It can very
well be used to test new technologies. The problem with importing it
into rawhide is that the external community cannot work directly work on
packaging anymore at this point.
this is also one thing that should be changed in the (near?) feature.
Rahul