Re: systemd and server use
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On 09/28/2014 at 07:10 PM, green wrote:
> Jonathan Dowland wrote at 2014-09-28 13:05 -0500:
>
>> The more and more I read people objecting to the modularity of
>> systemd, the more I am reminded of the Tanenbaum/Torvalds debate
>> re microkernels.
>
> It does seem to be related, though not so much due to systemd
> being modular as monolithic. systemd introduces a large amount of
> "core code" at PID 1 that needs to be stable and reliable.
>
> Microkernels, as I understand, aim to support a highly modular
> system *design* but are themselves minimal (Minix 3 has about 4000
> lines of executable kernel code). This "core code" can be more
> easily audited and maintained. Servers, eg. device drivers, are
> supervised and can not bring down the system (in the context of
> the kernel). (See
> <http://www.minix3.org/other/reliability.html>.)
>
> So yes, perhaps one major reason some people dislike systemd (too
> much "core code") is the same reason some people like the
> microkernel design.
Which I suspect was his point - because the non-microkernel Linux won
that fight, in practice...
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The Wanderer
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progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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