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LCE: Systemd two years on

LCE: Systemd two years on

Posted Nov 15, 2012 9:25 UTC (Thu) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: LCE: Systemd two years on by gb
Parent article: LCE: Systemd two years on

From my point of view, problem of this approach that 'fast boot time' is the only criteria, not maintainability, not reliability, not fault-tolerance, not easiness to learn, not reconfigurability.
systemd-managed systems are easier to maintain because unit files are easier to write than init scripts, and because most dependencies don't have to be configured explicitly because of socket/d-bus/etc. activation. They're more reliable and fault-tolerant because systemd isolates services with cgroups, file system namespaces, resource limits, syscall filters etc.. It's easier to learn because of the trivial unit file format and the superb documentation, not to mention the GUI that comes with it. And it's at least as configurable as sysvinit, since you can easily launch a shell script when starting a service.


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