Sven Mueller wrote: >Erich Schubert wrote on 29/08/2005 13:53: > > >>>I think we resolve a lot of problem if we make a fs writable from the >>>beginning. I think it can be a ram fs (i.e. in /boot/init) that >>> >>> >>I've thought about that, and IIRC gentoo uses something alike. >> >> > >True, they mount a 1MB "ramdisk" (tmpfs) on /mnt/.init.d >BTW: Though gentoo uses dependencies, they don't (yet) start multiple >services in parallel. > > Not per default, but they can. RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="no" in /etc/conf.d/rc
> > >>Still I'd prefer to not need that. >> >> > >If it can be avoided, it might be nice to do so, but if the >implementation get's a lot easier by using such a tmpfs area, it might >still be a valid option. > > > >>>An other point, I think we should forget runlevel. lilo and linux support >>> >>> >>Sure, I agree. I don't have classic runlevels any more for a long time. >>I have two runlevels - "full" and "suspend", and switch these before >>and after suspend. >> >> > >To each his own. I would not forget about "runlevels" (I currently don't >have a better name for it, perhaps "states" or "(service) collections"?) >alltogether, but fully supporting _names_ for them instead of _numbers_ >would sure be nice (I wouldn't want to enforce them though). Allowing >aliases for them would be even nicer (like 'runlevel' FullNetworking >having an alias "3", so that 'telinit 3' and 'telinit FullNetworking' >would be equivalent). > > > >>But it would be nice (but surely handleable via an external app) to >>support classic runlevels via some mapping - e.g. 1=single 2=full >>5=suspend >> >> > >Right. Should have read all before answering. ;-) > >cu, >sven > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >initscripts-ng-devel mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel > > _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
