Poettering: The Biggest Myths [LWN.net]

Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Posted Jan 27, 2013 18:49 UTC (Sun) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: Poettering: The Biggest Myths by hazard
Parent article: Poettering: The Biggest Myths

> systemd requires time to understand in its entirety.
Sysvinit based init schemes take orders of magnitudes more time and they even work differently on different distros.

> Without having a good grasp on the startup process overall, one is unable to quickly troubleshoot issues. This causes a commercial risk of longer downtime, as sysadmins will take longer to bring the system up in case of a fault.
This is a short-term problem that is easily offset by systemd's relative simplicity in the long term.

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