Title: Parallellized boot is now the default in Debian/unstable
-Tags: english, debian, debian-edu
+Tags: english, debian, debian edu, bootsystem
Date: 2010-05-14 22:40
<p>Since this evening, parallel booting is the default in
-Debian/unstable for machines where dependency based boot sequencing is
-enabled. Apparently the testing of concurrent booting has been wider
-than expected, if I am to believe the
+Debian/unstable for machines using dependency based boot sequencing.
+Apparently the testing of concurrent booting has been wider than
+expected, if I am to believe the
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg00122.html">input
-on debian-devel@</a>, and I concluded to move forward with the feature
-now, to give us some time to detect any remaining problems before
-Squeeze is frozen. If serious problems are detected, it is simple to
-change the default back to sequential boot.</p>
+on debian-devel@</a>, and I concluded a few days ago to move forward
+with the feature this weekend, to give us some time to detect any
+remaining problems before Squeeze is frozen. If serious problems are
+detected, it is simple to change the default back to sequential boot.
+The upload of the new sysvinit package also activate a new upstream
+version.</p>
More information about
<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot">dependency
based boot sequencing</a> is available from the Debian wiki. It is
-currently possible to disable parallel booting by adding this line to
-/etc/default/rcS:</p>
+currently possible to disable parallel booting when one run into
+problems caused by it, by adding this line to /etc/default/rcS:</p>
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CONCURRENCY=none
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