And most importantly and TFA mentions it several times: stripping unused drivers (and even the ability to load drivers/modules) and bloat brings very real security benefits.
I know you were responding about the boot times but that's just the icing on the cake.
And most importantly and TFA mentions it several times: stripping unused drivers (and even the ability to load drivers/modules) and bloat brings very real security benefits.
I know you were responding about the boot times but that's just the icing on the cake.
Mostly depends on how bloat correlates to attack surface, but you're right
But 150ms? That's boot time for dos or minix maybe (tiny kernels). 1s sure.
FreeBSD did some work to boot in 25ms.
Source: https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/29/freebsd_boots_in_25ms...
You can do <10ms. I was working to see if I could get it under 1ms, but my best was 3.5ms
for example: https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/