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Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports



On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:50:36AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Thu, July 18, 2013 09:15, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> >> - Fast startup
> >
> > I thought everyone claimed (including systemd supporters) that this was
> > a "teenager side effect" which we didn't care much about.
> 
> Definitely not. Debian should care about fast boot a lot. Rebooting a
> system, planned or not, is downtime. If we can reduce the amount of
> downtime that Debian systems experience, that is a big win.
> 
> Someone mentioned server POST that take minutes of boot time anyway. True.
> However, this ignores that the world and their dog are moving to virtual
> machines en masse for hosting their services. The boot times of vm's are
> negligible and we now have many systems rebooting in < 1 min. This is a
> very big advantage for professional and large scale installations, and the
> more that time is reduced, the more advantageous it will be for these
> users.

It's also worth noting that kexec-based reboots (if they work properly) can
eliminate POST time, but still has to go through the whole init run.

-- 
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

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