FC6 faster boot

[dragoran]

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 was in development but it stopped,
>> Systemservices was never in a working state.
>> Any plans on improving the boot process in FC6?
>> I would suggest to use initng which is in review for extras now [1].
>> But to get it in the final release it would be better to have it in 
>> rawhide rather than in extras.
>>
>> [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173459
>>
>>     
>
> Initng review has not been completed yet and doesnt work on many systems
> with a number of issues been highlighted and worked upon during the
> review process. 
I know this, because I am working on getting it working too (adding 
selinux support).
> 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.
> Rahul
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