Fedora 8 Boot time/shutdown time goal?

[Bill Nottingham]

Mark (markg85 at gmail.com) said: 
> now that you mention that.. can't fedora do a "global" fast check to
> see if any hardware configuration changed? that global thing should be
> real fast (few micro seconds) than once it detects changes do the full
> new hardware check.
> 
> This could be a bootup speed gain right?

Not particularly. The proper thing is to just nuke most of the check
and only concentrate on the stuff that we actually care about.

Bill