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. -- James Carlson, KISS Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
