Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A systemd-only Gentoo system

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:32 AM, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
> Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>> Hi; I've been running systemd in Gentoo since September from 2010, and
>> it works great for me: all my machines run it at this point.
>
>
> Well, I'm curious.
>
> How well does systemd work with uClibc based systems? More
> specifically does systemd work well with embedded linux systems?

I don't know first hand: I use systemd in my desktop and laptop
machines, a media center, and a couple of servers. However, ProFUSION
(http://profusion.mobi/) is a company specialized in embedded systems,
and they are huge supporters (and contributors) of systemd. I hear the
embedded guys in general  like a lot the idea of systemd.

> How does systemd work with a system that uses SElinux?

I don't use SELinux: however, the first distribution that shipped
systemd by default (Fedora) uses SELinux also by default, so I would
*think* it  works. But again, I don't use it.

> How well does a group of (systemd) systems work
> with a wide deployment of a distributed file system,
> such as BTRFS?

No idea. I personally use ext4, and I'm not looking forward to move my
systems to btrfs.

> Just curious if you know about any of these areas related
> to systemd.

Not really; I think my use cases are pretty simple and common.

But if you are interested in systemd, I think you should try it first
in simple setups, and certainly as provided by the Gentoo devs. My
overlay is for people like me, who already use systemd (in quite
common setups), and who would like to experiment a system without
OpenRC just for the "fun" of trying something new, inestable, and
potentially dangerous.

Regards.
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Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México