Stephen Adler wrote: > ...it's actually > quite good, in my opinion. It makes it possible to boot your system much > faster by bringing up > services in parallel.
I haven't looked at how systemd is implemented yet, much less lived with it, but one thing that caught my eye in the article was the description that they did away with the shell scripts of SysVinit and replaced them with binaries. There is a good reason why so much of the code that drives system administration is implemented as shell scripts: it is easily customized, and allows for great flexibility. Running service startup code in parallel doesn't necessitate doing away with shell scripts. It just needs a new coordinating layer and a way to describe the dependencies. It would be perfectly fine if they created a binary that accomplishes the coordination. And maybe they did. But the article give the impression they did more than that. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA "Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting." http://www.theperlshop.com/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
