SMF is way better designed than systemd. And SMF does not include binary
logging or an consolekit replacement or ........
I dont find a source for this. But i read that there is something in smf
which makes it way more stable compared to systemd...
On 09.12.2014 20:43, t.j.duchene@??? wrote:
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> >For real, systemd is going nowhere and will fail. Since it already
> >_is_ a total failure by design.
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> A lot of people say that as a “knee jerk” reaction and with respect, I
> must absolutely disagree.
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> Systemd actually has much that is quite commendable, regardless of the
> portability argument. Remember that the POSIX standard does not
> specify the init method. The problem that makes systemd questionable
> is “feature creep”. An init system does not need to perform binary
> logging, for example. I would be using it without rancor if the
> systemd team separated the logging function from the rest of the
> core, enforcing a fixed API that you can depend on for linking, and a
> better community process of governing its overall design. The
> problem with systemd is not the goal, simply the implementation.
>
> Where I have a real problem with systemd - and apparently Linus does as
> well - is the lack of quality assurance. Any userspace (non-kernel)
> booting tool that interferes with the normal operating of the kernel is
> a serious problem. Linus refused to merge his code for this reason.
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> From a common sense point of view, rather than that the popular:
> systemd is no worse than other tools used elsewhere, such as launchd or
> SMF. SysV is hardly a “sacred cow”. If you have been around the block
> a few times, you will at some point or another, see SysV go completely
> south on you. GNU tools like sed and awk used in scripts have awful
> bugs from time to time just like anything else.
> The hype in the Linux community over the whole affair really shows how
> far Linux has gone away from FOSS toward a philosophy of FLOS and an
> overblown sense of their own importance.
>
> Eventually, all of this will straighten itself out, and if it doesn’t, I
> foresee a lot of new FreeBSD installs. In the meantime, those of us
> concerned with mission critical systems have to eschew systemd, and hope
> Devuan does a better job.
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