Peter Memishian wrote:
>  > > I noticed that we still support "dladm -R option" by writting the dladm 
>  > > commands into the <altroot>/var/svc/profile/upgrade script. But I am 
>  > > wondering whether they should be written to the 
>  > > <altroot>/var/svc/profile/upgrade_datalink script instead (which is the 
> same 
>  > > script used for the system upgrade). If we do so, if someone runs "dladm 
>  > > create-aggr -R" command and also touched a <altroot>/etc/hostname.<link> 
> for 
>  > > this aggregation, the aggregation can be created early enough.
>  > > 
>  > > The downside of this approach is that the alternative system must be 
>  > > post-vanity-naming, which knows to run the 
> /var/svc/profile/upgrade_datalink 
>  > > script in the net-physical service.
>  >
>  > What do you think?
> 
> Given that /var/svc/profile/upgrade won't work right for aggregations, I
> think we have to write to /var/svc/profile/upgrade_datalink going forward.
> However, if we must support -R to alternate roots that are older than the
> booted environment (is this required?), then we might have to do something
> cheesy like looking for the existence of /sbin/dlmgmtd and writing to
> /var/svc/profile/upgrade if it doesn't exist.
> 
How can I find out whether "-R to alternative root that is older version" 
should be 
supported or not? Is there a guideline for this?

Thanks
- Cathy

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