insserv.conf - SuSE implementation of this idea

insserv.conf - SuSE implementation of this idea

Posted Sep 22, 2003 10:29 UTC (Mon) by RobDavies (guest, #9930)
Parent article: Boot Linux faster (IBM developerWorks)

SuSE (and United Linux) have had a "differential" boot concept, so only
the missing, or additional services are stopped or started on run level
changes, and a services file specifying relative dependencies from boot
scripts. They specify something like "$named" or "$local_fs", and there's
a file (insserv.conf) which specifies what service provide the symbolic
one. There's a note that LSB permits simultaneous starting, and many
service links share priority levels, and are started in parallel.

Gentoo boot.s even faster, maybe due to only starting services actually
specified

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