Or even better which drivers aren't supporting quiesce on the system in question.
On 2/3/2010 3:38 PM, Margot Miller wrote: > mm14424 at opensolaris:~$ pfexec reboot -f dryrun > reboot: not all drivers have implemented quiesce(9E) > mm14424 at opensolaris:~$ > > It would be more customer/system admin friendly to state something > like "Fast reboot not supported on this machine" rather > than above message which assumes some knowledge > of device drivers and driver entry points. > > Margot > > > Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> 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. >> >
