Since this evening, parallel booting is the default in
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
input
on debian-devel@, 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.
More information about
dependency
based boot sequencing is available from the Debian wiki. It is
currently possible to disable parallel booting when one run into
problems caused by it, by adding this line to /etc/default/rcS:
CONCURRENCY=none
If you report any problems with dependencies in init.d scripts to
the BTS, please usertag the report to get it to show up at
the
list of usertagged bugs related to this.
