Re: [CentOS] Some thoughts on systemd

2014-07-19 Thread William Woods
On Jul 19, 2014, at 1:39 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Sat, 2014-07-19 at 11:10 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> On 07/19/2014 09:05 AM, Always Learning wrote: > >>> 4. Lack of knowledge about the replacement. > >> Well .. all of that may be true and systemd may be the devil ... but we

Re: [CentOS] Some thoughts on systemd

2014-07-19 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2014-07-19 at 11:10 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 07/19/2014 09:05 AM, Always Learning wrote: > > 4. Lack of knowledge about the replacement. > Well .. all of that may be true and systemd may be the devil ... but we > would still have it as CentOS-7 rebuilds RHEL-7 sources. Debatin

Re: [CentOS] Some thoughts on systemd

2014-07-19 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 07/19/2014 11:10 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 07/19/2014 09:05 AM, Always Learning wrote: >> On Sat, 2014-07-19 at 09:08 +0300, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote: >> >>> It is actually funny how there seems to be so many opponents of systemd >>> who want back the old ways of doing things. >> These are

Re: [CentOS] Some thoughts on systemd

2014-07-19 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 07/19/2014 09:05 AM, Always Learning wrote: > On Sat, 2014-07-19 at 09:08 +0300, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote: > >> It is actually funny how there seems to be so many opponents of systemd >> who want back the old ways of doing things. > These are the causes:- > > 1. Familiarity with something that

Re: [CentOS] Some thoughts on systemd

2014-07-19 Thread William Woods
On Jul 19, 2014, at 9:05 AM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Sat, 2014-07-19 at 09:08 +0300, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote: > >> It is actually funny how there seems to be so many opponents of systemd >> who want back the old ways of doing things. > > These are the causes:- > > 1. Familiarity with

Re: [CentOS] Some thoughts on systemd

2014-07-19 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2014-07-19 at 09:08 +0300, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote: > It is actually funny how there seems to be so many opponents of systemd > who want back the old ways of doing things. These are the causes:- 1. Familiarity with something that works and can be modified without much effort- very imp

Re: [CentOS] Some thoughts on systemd

2014-07-18 Thread Veli-Pekka Kestilä
On 19.7.2014 1:23, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-07-18, Les Mikesell wrote: >> But it does force people who should be focusing on improving an >> application to instead spend their time reconfiguring the startup >> configuration for a distribution just to keep it working the same way. > This seems

Re: [CentOS] Some thoughts on systemd

2014-07-18 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-07-18, Les Mikesell wrote: > But it does force people who should be focusing on improving an > application to instead spend their time reconfiguring the startup > configuration for a distribution just to keep it working the same way. This seems (again) to be moving into a debate on "why s

Re: [CentOS] Some thoughts on systemd

2014-07-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Mark Tinberg wrote: > > So simple things are trivial, more complicated things are possible and the > options are there in the config file if you want to use them but you aren’t > forced to. But it does force people who should be focusing on improving an applicat

Re: [CentOS] Some thoughts on systemd

2014-07-18 Thread Mark Tinberg
On Jul 18, 2014, at 7:14 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > In principle this should simplify the algorithms involved. > But it seems to me that the way in which it has been implemented > has in fact increased the complication rather than the reverse. >From my perspective this is a simplified imple

Re: [CentOS] Some thoughts on systemd

2014-07-18 Thread Timothy Murphy
Mark Tinberg wrote: >>> But the only practical advantage of systemd that I've seen touted >>> is that it speeds up boot-time. >>> Even if this were true it does not seem to me worth worrying about, > If the only practical advantage of systemd that you have seen touted has > been boot time efficie

Re: [CentOS] Some thoughts on systemd

2014-07-17 Thread Warren Young
On 7/17/2014 11:39, Keith Keller wrote: > (Not suggesting that systemd actually solves this issue, only > that boot time is important in some use cases.) Well, *something* is making EL7 boot a lot faster than EL6. My EL6 test VM takes almost twice as long to boot to a console login (runlevel 3)

Re: [CentOS] Some thoughts on systemd

2014-07-17 Thread Mark Tinberg
On Jul 17, 2014, at 12:39 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-07-17, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >> But the only practical advantage of systemd that I've seen touted >> is that it speeds up boot-time. >> Even if this were true it does not seem to me worth worrying about, > > It is if you manage a

Re: [CentOS] Some thoughts on systemd

2014-07-17 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-07-17, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > But the only practical advantage of systemd that I've seen touted > is that it speeds up boot-time. > Even if this were true it does not seem to me worth worrying about, It is if you manage a large cluster of virtual containers which dynamically boot or sh

[CentOS] Some thoughts on systemd

2014-07-17 Thread Timothy Murphy
I haven't had any problems with systemd. However, I didn't have any problems with sysVinit over many years. But the only practical advantage of systemd that I've seen touted is that it speeds up boot-time. Even if this were true it does not seem to me worth worrying about, as - in my case at least