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Soft-reboot in systemd 254 sounds a lot like Windows' Fast Startup (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For those systemd users, it seems not as a big of a deal as "the register" poster might imply. In the end it'll depend if the new soft reboot is called or not (it's doubtful distros will change default behavior either).

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... I feel like loading the boot sector of a disk and jumping into the boot loader would be a more useful feature than whatever this is. I usually reboot to switch os or upgrade the kernel. Userspace cleanup is already pretty easy. How do zombie processes or open files fare with this scheme? Crashed drivers? Why replace the root fs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm wondering the same. Maybe it's helpful for containerized apps or something?

Anyone else have any insight on this?