On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 03:19:20PM -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote: > > I had thought that the reason we treat all new configuration files > > (/etc/dladm/*) as Private was that they're just a temporary expediency > > until they can be redesigned into SMF. Is that not the case? > > It is the case (and your summary is accurate). System software > designed by and for OpenSolaris should use SMF for its configuration > store. We do not force application or layered system service > configuration into SMF, although we think there's value in the latter. > System services that originate elsewhere and are ported to OpenSolaris > consolidations are the tricky ones, where only a configuration subset > may get moved, or the entire configuration, or merely > enabled/disabled...
So, is this an oblique endorsement of temporary instances? (Since that's what James evidently thinks is needed to get bridging to use SMF.)
