On 4/08/2014 11:32 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Andrew McGlashan > <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote: > >> My own view is "why systemd" .... fix sysinit instead, where it is >> broken or rather the packages [whatever they are] that don't work properly. > > Who should fix sysvinit? The upstream sysvinit developers are DDs and > they didn't do it (I'm not blaming them, I'm just noting that fact). Yes, that's what I meant, sysvinit is not broken. >> systemd gives faster boot times, so what! I prefer to boot less often >> and run with what works until I /have/ to do a reboot, so it wouldn't >> matter if it took 10 times as long to boot. Improving boot times is >> just like overclocking for games, it is largely irrelevant and something >> to boast about ... ie, no real benefit. > > Boot speed might not be an important feature for you but for > organizations with 1000s of servers, the faster the better. Sure it counts, but if you have 1000s of servers, you likely have many other considerations and you'll be pooling [at least] those servers in a cluster type arrangement ... much lessening the need for any machine to startup so quickly. Cheers A.
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