Quoth Alan Maguire on Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:42:57AM +0000: > If I recall, general/enabled is an "immediate" property, > such that if I change it without refreshing, SMF will > notice and change the state of the instance appropriately. > Is the same true of general_ovr/enabled (the > property set when I temporarily enable/disable an > instance)? I think so, but just wanted to check. > The context is some code that carries out instance refreshes > after temporary enable/disables - these are supposedly > there to ensure that general_ovr/enabled gets into > the running snapshot, but I suspect these refresh actions > can be removed since general_ovr/enabled is immediate, > but wanted to be 100% sure first. Thanks!
You are correct -- general_ovr/enabled is immediate also. In particular, svcadm enable -t doesn't request a refresh. David
