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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] [announce] s6-rc, a s6-based service manager for Unix systems
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 07:01:16AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 09:28:28PM +0200, Jaromil wrote:
>
> [cut]
>
> > >
> > > But let's be honest here: how many times does it happen that you have
> > > to reboot a production server nowadays?
> >
> > I think you are overlooking the vastity of use-cases here and I agree
> > with Laurent for a 5 minutes down you can have users raging at the door.
> >
> > for instance I can well imagine we may end up using s6-rc for
> > http://dowse.equipment which isn't a server, but a home network
> > appliance that filters a lot of traffic (adblocking and such), caches
> > and tunnels DNS queries etc.
> >
>
>
> I sincerely appreciate the work made by Laurent. Just please try to
> avoid falling in the same "everybody needs to boot-up in 12 seconds
> because high availability requires so" rhetoric championed by
> systemd-fanboys. That would do no good at all to s6-rc, and would not
> help acquiring new use bases, IMHO.


Weren't there measurements reported here fa few months ago that systemd
isn't even any better n this metric?

-- hendrik
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