> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:41 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> > so a good reason to power off is simply to save power
>
> Or to reboot for one of our frequent updates that require it. kernel,
> dbus, etc...
Why does anything other than a kernel update require a reboot?
Is it possible to use kexec to boot a new kernel from the old one? That
would cut down on the reboot time (on some of my systems, especially
servers with SCSI and/or RAID, the POST takes much longer than the
kernel/daemon boot).
Oh yes please! Some of my large servers seems to take weeks to boot :-)
Peter