On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:57:44AM +0100, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> > It doesn't look that bad - seems, that even without powerd the system is
> > halted in quite "soft" way.
> 
> If the file-systems happened to be in a consistent state, or all mounted
> read-only, then it was fine, but anything else warrants a fsck at
> reboot.

No, even without powerd, the system will attempt to halt properly,
see sys/dev/sysmon/sysmon_power.c:
	case PSWITCH_TYPE_POWER:
		[...]
		cpu_reboot(RB_POWERDOWN, NULL);
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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