network services at boot (was Re: Boot charting)

Till Varoquaux wrote:
> And, also, lowering the time-out for network discovery and switching
> over to init-ng could be retty nice.

People really ought to stop crying "init-ng!" when talking about faster
boot times. init-ng is a rather immature hack.

A parallel init should be done correctly, such as Sun's SMF:

 http://learningsolaris.com/docs/t-smf-devday-june-2005.pdf
 http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/selfheal/smf-quickstart.html

A Linux SMF implementation is an awesome project for a few competent
hackers to pick up. Anyone?

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