Jean McCormack wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: >> Sundar Yamunachari wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> The update to the the design document for the AI spring release >>> based on comments, feedback and design considerations is at >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/Design_doc_delta_for_AI_Spring_2009.1.pdf. >>> >>> This can be also accessed from the Caiman documentation page at >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/Documentation. >>> >> >> 1.1 The service dependency descriptions here have been superceded, I >> believe, by the results of discussion around jean's design note from >> last week. > > What we have is: > svc:/network/dns/multicast:default optional restart_on restart > svc:/network/tftp/udp6:default optional restart_on none > svc:/network/http:apache22 required restart_on none > >> >> I have concerns about the service configuration file proposed here. >> Was storing these in SMF property groups considered? The data seems >> compatible with doing so. One of the points of SMF was to reduce the >> need for lots of configuration file formats, each with their own >> custom parsers. Are there other factors arguing against use of the >> SMF repository? > Dave, > > The issue around using the SMF property groups, I believe, is the > scalability factor. To do this we need to have a list of n sets of > properties one for each possible install service. In our discussion last > week you mentioned that SMF properties didn't scale very well. >
I think the concern around scaling is in placing lots of data as lists into single properties. > Or are you talking about starting up a new smf service for each install > service? In that case the property groups would work very well. > A new service per group could be a choice, I guess. Alternatively you might create a new property group associated with the system/install/server installation service, with its name based on the install service name. Dave > Jean > > > > > > > >> >> Dave >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
