--- walt <walt@nea-fast.com> wrote: > Greetings! > According to the documentation, if the kernel panics, it > will reboot after the amount of seconds in /proc/sys/kernel/panic > given the value is > 0. Is this a "unmount filesystems reboot", > or the equivalent of pushing the reset button on the front of > the computer case? Depends. If the panic happens in interrupt context, the system just reboots. If it is in a process context, sys_sync() is called to sync all filesystems. It is not exactly 'unmount filesystem', but at least the data gets written to disk. Hope this helps, Ravi. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
