faster boot -- radical solutions?

[Jason Shein]

On Monday 15 May 2006 10:46, Matt Price wrote:
> Ho folks,
>
>  some time ago I remember seeing a story about a Japanese computer
> scientist who had gotten linux boot times down to somehting very short --
> 10 or 20 seconds I think, on a medium-range machine.  

Look into parallel booting of services. Definitely speeds things up when 
booting.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/13/173227


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