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
