Max Zhen wrote: > I'm not sure what is the best way to propagate instance renaming within > our current smf framework. > With my current prototype, I fix all dependencies during renaming > (before deleting the old instance) > a datalink smf instance. But, if there is an instance that silently > refers the name of the instance being > renamed using the way other than creating dependency (saves the name in > an instance's property), it > will be hard to detect such referring and fix it during renaming...
Referring to datalink interfaces in configuration data that administrators don't directly interact with should be done using linkid's to prevent exactly this kind of thing. What we want to avoid is administrators having to deal with linkid's. Under the covers, linkid's should be used, and they should be converted to link names where administrators are involved. -Seb
