2026-09-10 17:16 UTC
pssst
hey
parallelizing your init system is stupid
Replies (3)
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@cararemixed@mastodon.social 2026-09-10 17:20
@khm I remember trying to teach people why the supervision trees booted synchronously in Erlang/OTP. Same principles apply to anything booting. Getting to known good states rather than unknown ones makes boot AND recovery from failures more reliable.
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@kinderstampfer@mstdn.social 2026-09-10 18:01
@khm but fast booting will save humanity
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@rl_dane@polymaths.social 2026-09-10 18:02
@khm I'll bite... why? With the speed of SSDs, wouldn't it save a lot of time during startup?