Fedora 9 Preview Release Experience

[John Morris]

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 16:13, John Summerfield wrote:

> Interpret "service foo" liberally, I've been wondering why several 
> things are done during shutdown (and switching runlevels) including 
> shutting down network interfaces.

Releasing DHCP leases would be the big reason for properly shutting down
the network.

> It may be a topic for a group discussion, I don't see the point of 
> umounting filesystems unless and except where it's necessary so as to 
> ensure the cache is flushed.

Avoiding fsck on the next boot when filesystems aren't properly
unmounted would be the big reason for 'doing the right thing.'

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