>>> We are not sure what to do with item 3. In the discussion thread >>> above, I mentioned we >>> can do this as a special case in one of the LiveCD/AI boot up SMF >>> script. >>> Is there a better way to do it? >> Is it possible to leave the symlink creation to manifest-import? I >> can't imagine a significant performance issue with generating a single >> symlink? >> > The Live CD does not run manifest-import at all at boot time. At the > time when > the Live CD is constructed, we dummy out the start method for the > manifest-import script > so it won't run when the Live CD boots up. If we were to enable running > this script > at boot up, I assume it will not just create that one single symlink and > apply the platform.xml profile. > It will probably do many things too. Is that a correct assumption? If > so, we really > can't run manifest-import at LiveCD start up. Any other suggestions? >
The only likely concern with running manifest-import at live CD boot is potential impact on boot performance. That should be fairly easy to evaluate. Dave
