In message <199810091923.MAA05218@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>  Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 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.

I was thinking about a reboot after a panic, thats what this is about.

> 
>  > 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?

That shouldn't matter after a panic , as we don't turn the power of
and just reboot.

Stefan
> 
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