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From: Ed Grimm <paranoid@××××××××××××××××××××××.org>
To: Stefan Schweizer <sschweizer@×××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] init script optimizations?
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:27:04
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.58.0410140520010.21079@ybec.rq.iarg
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] init script optimizations? by Stefan Schweizer
1 On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
2
3 > I think we should avoid some long delays during boot, like netmount
4 > needs 30 secs untill it fails or dhcp timeout. These things should be
5 > made configurable or set to 3 sec to avoid a long hang if I am not
6 > connected to the network. This will speed up booting more. And of
7 > course update modules should be configurable with preferrable default
8 > off, because I dont like it to have to manually edit the init.d files
9 > just to get faster startup.
10
11 If one has no active network devices besides lo, why should the netmount
12 init script even bother trying to run netmount? I personally think that
13 would be a better fix.
14
15 Admittedly, this comes from someone who does not have netmount in his
16 default startup...
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18 Ed
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