Personally, it's nice to be able to frob things at runtime.  But if I'm
   going to reboot, I really don't see all that much difference between
   bashing on /etc/system or bashing on /sys/arch/foobox/conf/PICKLE; the
   major difference is the time taken, which usually is not that much of a
   factor.
   

what if this machine _doesn't_ have a /sys or a cc ?

.mrg.