[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Deprecate draknetcenter+network init scripts after systemd becomes default.

Tue Aug 23 15:37:49 CEST 2011

Thierry Vignaud skrev 23.8.2011 16:28:
+> On 23 August 2011 13:16, Guillaume Rousse<guillomovitch at gmail.com>  wrote:
+>>> The things that these individual tools implement are a few relatively
+>>> simply commands to the kernel and it doesn't make sense to do all this
+>>> in shell. It makes much more sense to do all these jobs in efficient
+>>> code that runs *quickly* without forking hundreds of times. The code is
+>>> still perfectly visible and easily hackable, but now things are much
+>>> more robust and efficient.
+>>
+>> Booting faster makes sense on desktops, not on servers. My general
+>> impression in this new trend (systemd, networkmanager, etc...) is the need
+>> to compete with proprietary system (macos, windows) on end-user segment, at
+>> the cost of genericity and simplicity.
+>
+> Indeed.
+> What's more gaining 20s on a server when the IBM uefi/firmware take *minutes* to
+> setup the machine is worthless.
+
+Heh,
+
+I remember a SGI guy on LKML a while back complaining that it took
+~2 hours to boot one of their _big_ servers (4096 cpus, a few TB RAM).
+
+After a patch that fixed the "bug", it brought the boot time down to 30 
+minutes and he was happy again :)
+
+--
+Thomas
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