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



On Sat, 8 May 2010 11:51:22 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli
<zack@debian.org> wrote:
>On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 11:37:10AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>> So it is the classical desktop vs. server situation. For my Debian
>> servers, that get booted at most once a month, I don't give a damn
>> about a faster boot.
>> 
>> I _do_ care, however, about not having migrations in the boot process
>> which has the potential of breaking a system reboot, possibly making
>> it necessary to obtain a means to access the console in case of
>> breakage.
>
>Sure, but I don't think that the server argument should be use to imply
>that no changes, that benefit some of our users, are allowed at all.

No, but it is valid to avoid a migration of this magnitude weeks
before the freeze, with the next migration to the next new mechanism
already on the horizon.

Greetings
Marc
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