[gobolinux-devel] Boot sequence enhancement

[Thomas Heller]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon at kymatica.com>wrote:

> Carlo Calica wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon at kymatica.com>
> wrote:
> >> One thing I noticed about gobo Tasks is that some takes start/stop
> >> arguments and some does not. Doing StopTask Network brings down the
> >> interfaces, while StopTask HAL would try to start another copy of hald!
> >>
> >
> > Yes, our Tasks are a mess.  I have a simple #! wrapper that handles
> > the arg processing and calls start()/stop() hooks as required.  There
> > are restart() and reload() hooks as well but if they don't exist the
> > wrapper just calls the stop() and start() hooks in order.  I haven't
> > had time to benchmark a boot using the wrapper to see if there's a
> > slowdown.
> >
> > The goal is to make Tasks similar to recipes.  Metadata could be added
> > as vars and more hooks defined as needed.  Some form a dependency
> > handling is worthwhile.  See [1] for a "need" based approach.
> > Hopefully, the wrapper could abstract away the differences between
> > basic init, advanced features of Upstart, InitNG.
> >
> > That leaves HOW tasks are selected for boot.  I think this should
> > outside the Task files themselves.  With dependency handling, this
> > could be an array in BootOptions, but I don't really like that either.
>
> I'd like a /S/S/BootTasks file with one task per line, with # comments..
>

I kind of like the idea with that file too.
I will certainly look into the init projects (upstart, initNG, eInit).
Lets see if I can provide a patch, or new way of doing stuff, which you all
like ;)


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