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. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
