Comment 12 for bug 516684

dear scott, can you please explain to my xen hosting provider why they need to upgrade their stable dom0 in order to support ubuntu with new domu kernels? their e-mail is <email address hidden>

I have just replaced upstart, mountall, ureadahead, plymouth,... by a very simple script that does what they fail to do: initialize my server and start the required services. very basic functionality which has been reliably provided by sysv init for more than 20 years...

what do you mean by plumbing layer? sysv init has reliably worked for >20 years with hundreds of different kernels without needing any layers. upstart introduces a plumbing layer and everything breaks