[TriLUG] Speeding up the boot process of a Linux box

[Sean Myers]

 >  Why are people rebooting so much that any of this is worth spending
 > time on?
 >
 > --Jeremy

Not everyone uses Linux as a server, and not everyone leaves their 
computers on all the time. Take, for example, my Ubuntu system at home. 
At actually takes longer to Hibernate the machine than to simply turn it 
off at night and back on the next afternoon.

That said, why would you ever *not* want the system to boot faster? Even 
if it is in a 24/7 server environment, should a catastrophic failure 
occur and high-availability DR not be an affordable option, a quicker 
boot doesn't sound like a bad plan.

--
Sean Myers
System Administrator
American Research Institute
(919) 228-4961