[gobolinux-devel] Alternate startup scripts - TexasFlood

[Hisham]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> Someone at IRC pointed me to TexasFlood boot script, but most
>  documentation was in portugese, so can any of the portugese
>  speaking/reading people take a look at
>  http://www.resulinux.forumdebian.com.br/texasfloodweb/index_pt_BR.html
>  and find out if it's interesting?

I took a look at this a good while ago. The idea behind it was to
replace Debian's full-blows sysvinit scheme with a straight shell
script (much like our own), contaning smart, tuned uses of & and
'nice' in order to maximize disk throughput.

Our own bootscripts could probably be tweaked to paralellize some of
the stuff by default, especially now that some slow-to-start stuff
like hal/dbus were thrown in the mix. Getting everything right is
always delicate, though (in my system here I added a hacky wait to the
boot scripts to ensure that eth0 is p when network starts...).

-- Hisham