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Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing



On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 08:06:12AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> I just filed an ITP on systemd and am planning on

Amazing!, thanks for this.

> making it installable alongside with sysvinit, switchable with
> init=/sbin/systemd when booting.  Eventually, I guess either using
> alternatives for /sbin/init or dpkg-divert-ing it away from sysvinit
> might be the way to go.  Either way, whether sysvinit is Essential or
> not is a bit irrelevant to whether people can experiment with other
> init systems.

I've just read a few days ago the design document of systemd; AFAIU it
requires anyhow patching various daemons, no matter how trivial the
patches are.

Do you have any experience or feeling on how usable it would be today in
a Debian unstable box? Can we imagine having it as an alternative init
which a Squeeze user might want to try, obtaining something more than a
machine that simply doesn't boot half of the machine services?

Many thanks for your work on this,
Cheers.

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