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by the_why_of_y 4058 days ago
You have a point - clearly my comment over-stated it - let's say that both correctness and performance were design goals.

At the time Upstart was considered "the future" ... read the comment from Scott James Remnant on this post (unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to link to a G+ comment directly?):

https://plus.google.com/+KaySievers/posts/C3chC26khpq

The point is that Upstart's event model was found to be flawed, and the copyright assignment policy meant that fixing Upstart was undesirable.

This explains the filesystem problem (both relevant for reliability and performance) and claims that systemd solves it but Upstart cannot:

https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/post...