I have been informed today that a new MySQL cluster built at work on CentOS 7.3 doesn't reliably start MySQL on boot.
We have none of these problems with our FreeBSD servers. systemd eats away at my time every week and I loathe it. It might not be a nuisance for endusers but it's a nightmare for sysadmins.
* https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2017-Ap...
Many times this.
At this point systemd is a whole lot more than an init system. Most people don't have a complaint with regards to systemd units or how fast it boots, it's more to do with the amount of dependencies it seems to be sucking in (at least from my experience).
So they do nothing as udev and systemd already are separate packages in Debian?
"Separate packages" does not imply "no dependencies".
Hint: udev in Devuan is just the unmodified Debian package. So much for the "heavy lifting" done by Devuan in the last years.
And udev w/o systemd is still supported upstream, just not building only udev (one also builds the systemd binaries and throws them away).
So, one person tried to write a replacement for udev and gave up. What should that tell me?
(The whole systemd tempest in the tiniest, most awkward of teacups never made a lick of sense to me--in no small part because, like 99% of people, the only time I ever interact with it is when I throw a service declaration out there, and Noah Kantrowitz's fantastic `poise-service` Chef cookbook abstracts that away for me.)