FC6 faster boot

[dragoran]

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
 >
 >
 >