Re: subsystem crashes reboot system?

[Mitch Adair]

> good.  But this crash left the system in a semi-functional state.  The 
> networking stack was up and running, the kernel was running, but the 
> filesystem was not functional and because of this the kernel was in a nearly 
> unusable state.  Because the system was pingable, most tcp-stack level 
> detectors would not have been able to tell that something serious was wrong.  
> The machine (our main production machine that serves millions of hits a week) 
> was down for three hours.

Isn't this what watchdog is for?  I think even the software watchdog would
catch this, then you can panic and reboot.

	M