Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis

[Harald Hoyer]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:47:32 +0100
> Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/fedora-10-boot-analysis
>>
>> A brief Fedora 10 boot analysis.
>>
>> To reach the 20 Second Startup Feature 
> 
> this begs the question, and you knew I as going to ask ;), if Fedora
> wants to reach the 5 second boot that is quite possible on this
> hardware, even without too insane compromises.
> (which translates to something like 2 to 3 seconds on a full sized
> laptop-with-ssd)
> 
> If not, I would regret that but it's not something I would have to live
> without; I can get a fast boot myself quite fine. 
> If so, something needs to happen NOW for F11, with a real serious push
> for this. It'll involve quite a few people and quite a few packages
> that need to get things right, but it's not at all impossible nor does
> it require impossible-for-fedora compromises.
> 
> 

Push your kernel patches, so we have a kernel fast boot and sreadahead.
Persuade our kernel maintainer to compile more modules in the kernel.

But, we can't / don't want to drop gnome and most other services, you dropped to 
reach 5 seconds.