The 26/07/12, Heiko Baums wrote:
Principally right again. But I have a problem with booting daemons in parallel, on Gentoo as well as on Arch. Made several problems. But I can't tell anymore which. So I prefer booting in serial, even if it's slower.
Right. It's not much surprising that Gentoo and Arch had problem while trying to get init start daemons in parallel because none of these init scripts were initially designed for that purpose.
If I recall correctly this was also one of Arch's advantages over Gentoo that I just could add the daemons to the DAEMONS array in rc.conf and choose the order myself.
I expect from systemd to highly change such bad user experience in the world of parallel init.
I must admit that I didn't use OpenRC and Upstart, yet. I switch to Arch right before OpenRC was introduced in Gentoo.
I have Gentoo systems and enabling parallel in them made systems ran into problems, here. -- Nicolas Sebrecht