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From: Julien Cayzac <jcayzac@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: idea for speeding up the boot process in Gentoo..
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:45:17
Message-Id: 1031680305.16961.3.camel@workstation.brainlex.com
1 On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 12:07, Marko Mikulicic wrote:
2 > Felipe Ghellar wrote:
3 > > If the init scripts could be organized like a tree of dependencies, at
4 > > least each branch could be parallelized.
5 >
6 > It's not always a tree. It is a graph. A package can have multiple
7 > dependencies.
8 > I think it could be possible to execute dependecies in parallel (the
9 > entire runlevel seen like
10 > a script with the whole directory as a dependency) and waiting for
11 > completion. Once a script is running
12 > other invocations will be queued.
13 > Of course this a simplistic view... :-) (reverse stoping, error
14 > handling,.... )
15
16 You will find what you describe at http://www.fastboot.org/
17 It's called SEREL.
18
19 Regards,
20 Julien.