network services at boot (was Re: Boot charting)

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 11:31 +0100, Ivan Krstic wrote:
> 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?

Make sure to check out http://smarden.org/runit/ before starting to hack
together a new init system though. http://www.thedjbway.org/ has some
good documentation about how it is supposed to work.

I get the impression that this smf has some djb inspired design
elements.

Regards,
John