Re: faster boots?

From: Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Apr 04 2002 - 22:00:22 EST

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On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 06:51:46PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Still. Joe tells me (offlist) that his machine is taking
> ages just to get to the "starting init" stage.

I find that on heavily scsi systems: one machine spins each of 13 disks
up sequentially. This makes the initial boot take 3-5 minutes before
init even gets its foot in the door. If someone made a patch to spin
up scsi disks on the first access, I'd gladly give it a test. ;-)

-ben

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