FreeBSD Boot Times

[Ian Lepore]

On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 09:10 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I was just wondering what it is that FreeBSD does that makes it take so long 
> > to boot. Booting into Ubuntu minimal or my own custom Linux distro, literally 
> > takes 0.5-2 seconds to boot up to shell, where FreeBSD takes about 10-20 
> > seconds. I'm not sure if anything could be parallelized in the boot process,
> 
> mostly kernel time. 
> > Note: This isn't really an issue, moreso a curiosity.
> 
> true. system that never crash are not often booted

An embedded system may be booted or powered cycled dozens of times a
day, and boot time can be VERY important.  Don't assume that the way you
use FreeBSD is the only way.

-- Ian