FC6 faster boot

[dragoran]

Kostas Georgiou wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:34:37AM +0200, dragoran wrote:
>
>   
>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 10:15 +0200, dragoran wrote:
>>>  
>>> 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?
>>     
>
> Well many (most?) people use autofs to mount home directories. In my
> systems since my home is an nfs4 automount with krb5 you need to start
> ntpd,rpcidmapd,rpcgssd,autofs before you can see /home. I know many
> places that have their home directories under /afs as well.
>
> Also keep in mind that a home directory can be anywhere (/usr/people
> for example will still be in use in many places I suspect) and you'll
> also find links like /home -> /foo/bar where /foo/bar is automounted.
>
> Simply checking fstab/auto.master isn't going to tell you anything about
> where the home directories are. Of course as long as the early startup
> can be disabled easily it isn't a problem.
>
> Kostas Georgiou 
>
>   
what about a config file?