Hi All, During the code review phase for the following smf performance improvement:
6351623 Initial manifest-import is slow http://cr.opensolaris.org/~stevep/6351623-2 One of David's recent comments from the code review brings up my intention of sending this email and soliciting your opinion. The question is what's the best thing to do if we fail copying the tmpfs repository back to the root file system after a successful services import. The current implementation is to switch the repository back to the /etc/svc/repository.db (may be stale) if we fail the copy. The original reason for doing this is if we don't switch back, we may stay on the tmpfs repository for a long period of time and may suffer more loss of customization in case of the system crash. So basically I am looking for the best solution to address this. There are couple of known alternatives: (1) exit svc.configd and put the system in maintenance mode (2) retry copy operation but this really doesn't address the problem IMO. Let me know what do you think. TIA Steve
