Re: Interesting article on boot ordering

[Enrico Scholz <enrico scholz informatik tu-chemnitz de>]

dhollis davehollis com (David T Hollis) writes:

> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html Really
> interesting concept

It is still based on the old SysV init-concept which lacks reliability.
There are existing better methods like minit[1] or runit[2] which are
implementing dependencies also, which are having very fast
startup/shutdown times and which are restarting died processes
automatically.

I am working on bringing minit to Red Hat, but currently only
vserver-setups are published and NFS-rootfs setups are used internally.
The hand-written (and not very good) flow for my laptop can be found
here[3]; further information can found under this URL too.



Enrico

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://www.fefe.de/minit/
[2]  http://smarden.org/runit/
[3]  http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/minit-fedora/files/default-flow.png