On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:58:17AM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > Like I asked on icb, why do we need a knob for this at all?
One knob to turn it off so when you have installed servers in a room, to avoid seeing one shutdown because you pressed the power button when moving one. To give you an example, I worked at the CNRS and we had a room with servers, and several were just oversized powerful PCs installed side by side on two desks. We have to add one, so move the others on one side, and by moving one we accidentally pressed a power button and the machine did shut down... Without almost a hundred machines depending on it and people working on those hundred machines that really did not like what happened. One knob to be able to turn it on so when you're working on a machine, and console dies, to be able to shutdown properly and avoid a fsck. No idea what the default setting should be, but if the knob is there we can use PCs with such buttons as servers and choose what happens if they are pressed or not. Perhaps let the button make a shutdown if pressed, and to be able to turn it off on servers ? -- Gilbert Fernandes
