> >Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
> >>> That is what we current have, except that the door file is currently in
> >>> /etc
> >>> (/etc/.dlmgmt_door) instead of /etc/dladm, but it caused flashinstall
> >>> problem described in
> >>> this case.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Why was it made into a hidden file? Why not in /var/run?
> >>
> >> Casper
> >>
> >
> >According to the original mail:
> >
> >
> > > Note that although the /var/run directory seems a better place to
> > > hold door files, it is mounted much later in boot by the
> > > filesystem/minimal service, therefore cannot be used in this case.
> >
> >
> >It seems to me that we're working around a lot of problems here in
> >other areas....
>
> I guess that in hindsight /var/run was not such a cool location after all;
> /var/run needs to be created *after* /var is mounted and that might be
> fairly late.
>
> Casper
nfs services use a number of files in /etc/svc/volatile.
Couldn't dlmgmtd use that directory?
-JZ
