OK, so I’m a slacker as I’ve not blogged for over a month now :(However, I have been a very busy beaver! baselayout-2 is nearing completion. The only outstanding bug I know of is a service timeout of the local resolver when using resolvconf and parallel startup. All init scripts on my workstations and personal servers have been de-bashified and most of them bumped. A few have not been bumped- nscd (glibc) being one of them.
Some people have asked if I have a wish list. Well, I didn’t, but now I do.Loads of stuff- books, music, films. I don’t expect anything, but you never know :)
Every Gentooer knows RC- or rather /sbin/rc.It’s the tool that handles the initial boot and then starts and stops services depending on the runlevel desired. It’s also primarily written in bash. This is no bad thing, as it’s a powerful shell, compared with say the standard sh shell from FreeBSD. But this is not without a price, and that price my friends is speed.baselayout-1.13 currently boots around 10 seconds faster than 1.
Long time no blog! However, I have been a busy beaver :)baselayout-1.13 has undergone some serious stress testing by dsd and we’ve made some good improvements to reliability when shutting down, solving a few race issues and sorting out dependencies hopefully for once and all 8)Parallel startup has also had some speedups, and my hdd light is now hardly out once we enter rc properly (if anyone knows how to speed up udev, let me know)So how do we now compare to other init systems such as init-ng, eINIT and Upstart?
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