On 04/30/09 14:24, Dave Miner wrote: > Caimaniacs, > > In looking at some solutions for 8558 which would allow SUNWemlxs to > stay on the media, I'm seeing frequent hangs in the disks screen as it's > waiting for target discovery to complete. As I've been looking through > some code to figure out how it could hang in order to understand what I > might do about it, I notice that libdiskmgt has an environment variable, > _LIBDISKMGT_INSTALL, which can be used to prevent libdiskmgt from > hooking into the sysevents for notification of new devices. Digging > around, I see that the old Solaris installer does use this variable, but > we're not. Im assuming in the Solaris case it was to avoid putting > something additional into the miniroot, but I haven't gone off and > researched that. Anyone have a reason why we aren't using it in Caiman > (and why we shouldn't, since it seems to reduce memory usage of the > installer somewhat)? I didn't find anything in the target discovery > design doc. > > Dave
For the Solaris installer, see 6297948. Sue
