On 5/3/2011 9:01 AM, Steve Clark wrote:
Trying to save a few seconds when rebooting a server seems pointlessto me
The Linux kernel is also used in laptops/desktops
Fast boots also matter for embedded systems.
+1
So does booting on small, non-PAE hardware. RH wants to drop the embedded world, but the centosplus kernel may yet "save us" from ignominy.
So you save a second in boot time, then waste half an hour trying to figure out which wire goes to which network interface... Doesn't sound like a win to me unless you only have one NIC.
But udev keeps these straight across reboots - at least for me.
Once the hardware address matches in the ifcfg-eth? file, it pins the name to the device, but move a disk to a new chassis or swap a network card and you are fried again.