Cathy Zhou wrote:
>> alternate root:
>>
>> - dladm would write out dladm commands to the /var/svc/profile/upgrade 
>> script off of the alternate root.  SMF commands would be fairly easy 
>> here because we could use linkmgmtd to come up with unique linkids. 
> 
> I don't understand this. How the linkmgmtd instance on one system be 
> able to know the condition of another system that it can come up with a 
> unique linkid that does not already exist on another system?
> 

It can't.  Seb and I had a talk about this and he explained a few 
scenarios where linkmgmtd on one system could not come up with unique 
link ids for the other system.

> Both cases, I think use dladm commands will be easier. But certainly, I 
> think we need to investigate more to know whether Seb's concern about 
> the timing between this upgrade script and linkmgmtd would cause any 
> problem.
>

That's something I'll bring up with the SMF folks.

thanks,
Dan


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