Hello James,

Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 5:56:26 PM, you wrote:

JC> Robert Milkowski writes:
>> Hello networking-discuss,
>> 
>>       Currently in.mpathd is started as part of net-init start method.
>>       The problem is that if sys admin change some parameters he/she
>>       has to manually start it.

JC> No.  ifconfig (the tool that sets those parameters) will automatically
JC> start in.mpathd if needed, based on the parameters set.

But if you change some parameters in /etc/default/mpathd you will need
to manually kill it i start the binary directly - kind of ugly.

>>       IMHO it should be put under SMF, like Sun Cluster does by
>>       creating new smf service - svc://network/multipath:cluster

JC> I agree; it should be under SMF.  It's one of a class of on-demand
JC> services (like dhcpagent) that are currently not well served by SMF.
JC> The discussion on this back in April led to CR 6696281.

>>       Perhaps cluster could use the default system service once it
>>       would be delivered. I've just quickly checked and there's
>>       nothing cluster specific except for checking if node booted as
>>       part of cluster. So maybe we could re-use what cluster guys
>>       already come up with, change fmri, put put proper dependencies
>>       if needed, remove checking for cluster mode and it's done :)

JC> I'm not sure I follow ... but in.mpathd is already automatically
JC> managed, so there shouldn't be any need for special code here.




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 Robert                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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