On 02/ 3/10 11:12 AM, Sherry Moore wrote:
> Garrett,
>
> It was by your request during PSARC review that "reboot -f dryrun" to
> be a project private interface and therefore not to be documented in
> the man pages.
>
Hmm.. ok. I don't remember rightly why I would have requested that, but
I presume I had a reason for it at the time.
Perhaps its a good time to revisit that decision, since there seems to
be some desire to have the ability to query this.
- Garrett
> Sherry
>
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:32:37AM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> On 02/ 3/10 09:59 AM, Calum Mackay wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/02/10 17:38, chris kiick wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>> How do I tell if my system has the "specific capabilities"
>>>>>>> required for
>>>>>>> fast reboot? Is there a command which can be run, or a
>>>>>>> particular line in
>>>>>>> prtconf, prtdiag or the like which tells me whether the
>>>>>>> system is capable
>>>>>>> of fast reboot?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> reboot -f dryrun shows whether your system is capable at all.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Lovely. Is that documented anywhere? I don't see it in the
>>>>> man page for
>>>>> reboot(1M). Seems like an ideal extension to the text you
>>>>> proposed along the
>>>>> lines of "To see if your system is capable of fast reboot,
>>>>> run reboot -f
>>>>> dryrun".
>>>>>
>>>> dryrun only works on x86.
>>>>
>>> I don't see it mentioned in reboot(1) on an x86 system either.
>>>
>> Its "undocumented", and IIRC, was not formally ARC'd as an interface.
>>
>> - Garrett
>>
>>> cheers,
>>> calum.
>>>
>
