On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 02:06:59PM -0700, Bart Smaalders wrote: > >WRT IPS, deployment into large enterprise SMP servers should not require > >a reboot to effect a file system update. The pkg team should also think > >about shared multi platform system architectures. > > Well, clearly ZFS cannot be updated on a live system :-); the same is > likely true for UFS. Do you really distribute fixes to SAMFS that > require the filesystems to be unmounted, but don't require a reboot?
Yes. We really do that, and we really don't require a reboot :) So, going back to Todd's email from July 2: ] I would like to start discussing a way to allow a service to communicate ] to IPS that it is currently active, preventing pkg from making any changes. ] ] One idea we've had is to create an attribute for the entire package (to ] prevent endlessly specifying files/directories). This attribute would ] specify an SMF property and an associated failure value. Before pkg ] would update/remove any files, it would check to see if the property was ] set to the failure value. If it was, pkg would fail the update/removal. Something like this would allow the product to say, "I'm busy now," and then we could train our users to run a pre-remove tool. Dean _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
