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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago

11 minutes to 55 seconds in their example is interesting. I'd wager this won't do much for the consumer side, but enterprise...could save tons of time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yinz shut your boxen down?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

What I'm thinking. If it took that long for my server to shut down, I would just sync and force reset. Although tbh, most things are VMs now, and those reboot pretty fast and would likely not be affected much by these improvements.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You guys heard about vulnerabilities?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

"Gentlebeings?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought the delayed shutdown was intentional to not let the vibration of the disks increase too much

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think that applies to SSDs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

well of course. however not everyone uses only SSDs, especially before SSDs became popular, but even today.