Many portables has got a feature which allows you to turn of the machine and
restart it without needing to boot again. Basically I think it flushes the
memory and info about processes.. Before it does that it probably syncs the
discs etc. This feature didn't work to well on Linux but the theory...
I am not sure (as usual) but if it would be possible to freeze the system,
flush all interesting info including the entire memory and make the new kernel
cooperate with the "old" info..
Perhaps it would only operate if we killed all processes perhaps even umounting
all filesystems. This wouldn't be bad at all. I can imagine this won't take
more then perhaps 10 seconds. A major time saving compared to a complete
reboot... But then all network connections would be lost, but it is at least a
start =)
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