Re: Updating reboot's default

In reply to: Warner Losh : "Updating reboot's default"
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From: Florian Smeets <flo_at_smeets.xyz>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:39:40 UTC

On 21.06.22 16:01, Warner Losh wrote:
> 15 or 20 years ago, we talked about changing the default for reboot from 
> 'right now' to being safe shutdown. There were arguments made against it 
> due to tiny appliances and such.
> 

> 
> Comments?

Yes, please!

I've been in the camp that reboot should be 'shutdown -r now' for a very 
long time.

If you look at this twitter thread from about a year ago, there are a 
couple of experienced FreeBSD users and committers in there that didn't 
know the difference. 
https://twitter.com/DLangille/status/1430914030420598784

Personally I've had to restore databases more than once because someone 
used reboot and the database was thoroughly corrupted and couldn't 
recover on its own.

Florian