Stephen Potter writes:
> > To a new Solaris user that comes from other OS, (s)he may
> > find it bothersome not to find the device after a normal system
> > reboot has performed. Then they will ask, "what is the problem
> > with Solaris?" 
> 
> I agree, if there is a way for the guru to turn off auto-reconfig when they 
> want.  This seems like a "least surprise" and "most common situation" issue.  
> It is much more common that when someone reboots a system, they want to find 
> all the changes, and is least surprising to most people when it works that 
> way.

The problem with that idea is that forcing reconfiguration every time
kills the boot-time metric, which is an important part of computing
overall availability of the system.  Such a project would fail on
boot-time regression.

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