[Nix-dev] How to get rid of systemd (was: Modifying the init system (introducing S6 supervision suite))

[Colin Putney]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Ertugrul Söylemez <ertesx at gmx.de> wrote:

>
> > Instead a lot of services can be treated as a sequence of isolated
> > containers, and a small set of "load-balanced", mutable service entry
> > points.  Namespace magic can make a lot of previously global state,
> > local, such as ports, pid-files, log files etc.
> >
> > For these kinds of services, you don't need graceful shutdown, which is a
> > great simplification, similarly to what docker typically provides.
> >
> > I feel that a great design in this area should blend well with
> distributing
> > services across machines, failover, etc. which are concerns that systemd
> > doesn't start to cover.
>
> That's a very good summary of why I want to implement my proposal.  Let
> me see if I can get a working prototype.


This sounds a lot like Disnix! How would it be similar? How would it be
different?

-Colin
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