> Is there a way to force a reboot on a system that is otherwise finding
> itself blocking on reboot() ? I have a system that has a broken raid array
> that won't ever get past the notifier_call_chain ( SYS_RESTART ) list. The
> machine is co-located, and it's hard for me to get a human to reboot it.
> Ideally, I'd like to be able to call machine_restart() directly... can I
> duplicate it's functionality in user space?
Probably the simplest way is to find the notifier_call_chain() call
and modify /dev/mem in order to get rid of it :)
Have a nice fortnight
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