I did some more work on handling dependencies, and made a package from the SuSe tool insserv (wnpp #324926), including dependency information for several of the common init.d scripts in use in debian. It is capable of reorganizing the boot sequence in a way that actually speed up the boot process.
To test this, install the package from <URL:http://developer.skolelinux.no/~pere/debian/>, copy the parallelizing rc scripts in place, run the script to reorganize all rc#.d/ symlinks, and reboot. In short: dpkg -i http://developer.skolelinux.no/~pere/debian/insserv_1.00.8-0.0.pere.2_i386.deb cp /usr/share/doc/insserv/examples/rc /etc/init.d/rc cp /usr/share/doc/insserv/examples/rcS /etc/init.d/rcS insserv -v # At this point, I recommend examining the order in /etc/rcS.d/ and # /etc/rc2.d/ carefully, to verify that the configuration actually # will boot. Update /etc/insserv/overrides/ or # /usr/share/insserv/overrides/ with better dependency information # if the boot order is incorrect. shutdown -r now Please let me know if you have better dependency info for some scripts, or got dependency info for new scripts. It seem to me that suse got code in place to run boot scripts in parallel. Check out <URL:http://www.sourcentral.org/man/SUSE93/8+startpar>. Perhaps something to steal? _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
