On Fri, 09 Oct 1998 20:09:13 +0200 
 Stefan Grefen <grefen@hprc.tandem.com> wrote:

 > Yes, (re)booting on a x86 is slow enough we don't have to make it worse.
 > For a server you want it to come up as fast as possible ..

Slow because reboot/halt currently (and incorrectly) wait for everything
to die.  That's shutdown's job.

 > Please:
 > 	1) do it only for pcconsole, comconsole doesn't need it

Not.  What about the case where IDE disks, which CANNOT be issued a
"flush your cache" call, are still writing their data?

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