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On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 11:01 +0100, Stefan Schweizer wrote: |
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> I think we should avoid some long delays during boot, like netmount |
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> needs 30 secs untill it fails or dhcp timeout. These things should be |
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> made configurable or set to 3 sec to avoid a long hang if I am not |
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> connected to the network. This will speed up booting more. And of |
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> course update modules should be configurable with preferrable default |
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> off, because I dont like it to have to manually edit the init.d files |
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> just to get faster startup. |
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The short answer: probably not |
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The long answer: We try to cater to the majority of our users. The |
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majority of our users use DHCP and modules, so we're unlikely to disable |
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them. Now, I believe that newer versions of the init scripts allow for |
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much more customization of the networking capabilities of Gentoo and I |
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am sure something could be worked out to remove this "delay". At the |
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same time, have you considered a "no-network" runlevel? |
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As for the module updates, I agree that something can be done to speed |
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it up or have it only run when needed, but at the moment we do not have |
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a way, which is why we are discussing this now to see if a workable |
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solution can be found. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Operations/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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