On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:19:41 +0100 David Woodhouse dwmw2@infradead.org wrote:
TBH I've mostly taken to using 'sync; reboot -f', or SysRq-S-U-B to reboot machines these days; what we do on shutdown is mostly a pointless waste of time.
I was thinking about this over the weekend. We have "shutdown" sections in services so that you can restart a service while running, however we don't necessarily have to "shut down" the services when we shut down the system.