Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:26:56 -0700
From: David Bustos <David.Bustos at sun.com>
Subject: [smf-discuss] Initial Enhanced SMF Profiles design available
The first draft of the Enhanced SMF Profiles design is now
available at http://opensolaris.org/os/project/smf-profiles/Design.
If you are so inclined, please review it and send feedback to this
list.
The NWAM section contains the following paragraph:
To determine the precedence of active profiles, both active and
inactive profiles will carry a precedence attribute, which the user
may modify. Profiles with equal precedence will be arranged in the
order that they were activated (most recent on top). Precedences
will be expressed as floating point numbers between 0 and 1. The
local profile will have the highest precedence (1.0 + ?), and the
base profile will have the lowest (0.0). The precedence of other
profiles will default to 0.5. This should free NWAM from needing to
store profile precedence in NWAM-specific configuration.
Adding a notion of precedence begs the question of how precedence
values should be assigned. If I'm developing a profile, how should I
go about picking a precedence value? How can I be sure that the value
I pick won't interfere with (or be interferred with by) the value some
other profile developer chooses?
-- Glenn
