Re: faster boots?

[Benjamin LaHaise]

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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