Dave Miner wrote: > Caimaniacs, > > In looking at some solutions for 8558 which would allow SUNWemlxs to > stay on the media, I'm seeing frequent hangs in the disks screen as > it's waiting for target discovery to complete. As I've been looking > through some code to figure out how it could hang in order to > understand what I might do about it, I notice that libdiskmgt has an > environment variable, _LIBDISKMGT_INSTALL, which can be used to > prevent libdiskmgt from hooking into the sysevents for notification of > new devices. Digging around, I see that the old Solaris installer does > use this variable, but we're not. Im assuming in the Solaris case it > was to avoid putting something additional into the miniroot, but I > haven't gone off and researched that. Anyone have a reason why we > aren't using it in Caiman (and why we shouldn't, since it seems to > reduce memory usage of the installer somewhat)? I didn't find anything > in the target discovery design doc.
Didn't we have a discussion about this way back when, and decided that if a user were to plug in a USB drive for example, they should be able to go back a screen, then go forward, and it should show up as a device to install on in the disk screen? (But I'm not even sure if libdiskmgmt would need sysevents to get notified of such things...) -ethan > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
