Jeff asks:
> Perhaps Stan can elaborate on the relative risk of an arbitrary reboot.
 
It's like a system failure (without the console message!), followed by
a control-B TC ... so nothing is posted to disk first, no cleanup done...
 
that's why I almost never do it.  I've used it maybe once in the last
year, when I was at home and needed to reboot a partially hung machine (which
had an AUTOBOOT setup) ... and I wasn't particularly concerned about shutting
it down nicely.  If I had a Jeff-like telnet/console setup, I'd have used it.
 
 
As Lee pointed out, the TC is necessary if you want to take a dump.
 
 
Still: the _reboot_cpu trick is not recommended, but possible.
 
 
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