On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Jim Klimov <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Yes. That 'distributed SMF' thing, too ;)
>

Distributed systems, and orchestration would be nice enhancements.
Systems generally don't live in isolation any more. (Although it's a lot
simpler if they do.)


> For me that would be an ability to see and influence service states on
> remote envs (including neighboring other zones), so e.g. if a tracked
> instance of database got up somewhere, start this appserver here (or the
> opposite for orderly shutdowns). I had some clumsy PoCs back in the day,
> but nothing good to share except a few ideas ;(
>

If you look at the smf(5) man page, there's a tantalizing hint about scopes,
and "localhost" being the only currently supported scope.


> Also, monitoring of service state (other than just the process running) -
> similar to what I bolted on with zones-as-a-service, or vbox svc's, or
> cataliner-framework - to take action when the service stalled, to complete
> the SMF startup method when the service is actually ready to serve (so
> dependants can actually contact it), etc.
>

Yeah. What happened to monitor methods? Something else that was never
fully fleshed out or completed.


> There are also some good sides and unit types in systemd - might look at
> transplanting some nifty ideas back from those who emulate SMF, poorly in
> some cases ;)
>
> Jim
> --
> Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Android
>



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