Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

Paulo Marques
2005-02-15T13:29:55Z

Helge Hafting wrote:
> Now that is a really good idea. Init could simply run "make -j init2" to
> enter runlevel 2. A suitable makefile would list all dependencies, and
> of course the targets needed for "init2", "init3" and so on.
>
> It might not be that much work either. Parallel make exists already,
> and the
> first attempt at a makefile could simply implement the current sequence
> that
> is known to work. Then the tweaking comes. :-)

Someone already mentioned this work before on this thread. I just
googled for it and found the link:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html?ca=dgr-lnxw04BootFaster

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