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Re: Faster shutdown and the ubuntu "multiuser" update-rc.d extention



On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 00:29 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:13:13AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > What about changing the default values for dh_installinit for a future
> > debhelper compatibility layer, to use 'start 20 2 3 4 5 . stop 80 1 .'
> > instead of 'default' when calling update-rc.d?
> 
> Some packages actually do need to shut down cleanly; in the case of a
> database, for example, such a change could cause data loss.

Surely no more than a hard power failure(*), which databases (even such
lightweight ones as sqlite) are designed to handle.

(*) To any component :)

-Rob
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