Re: Making SysV boot scripts reboot faster
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 04:41:35AM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote:
>
> I always find it dumb that rebooting a GNU system involves doing so much
> stuff, when the machine is going to be rebooted anyway. e.g. why
> deconfigure the network interfaces? It's not even getting saved, it's just
> volatile system state that will be destroyed by the reset.
[snip]
It occurs to me that server applications do need to unmount the network
interfaces properly, because maybe the other machines having a
conversation with them need to react gracefully, if its in a pod or
something.
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