On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 02:22:21PM -0700, Tom Whitten wrote:
> > What happens if svc.configd blows up and loses the running repository?
> 
> svc.configd will be restarted by startd if it blows up.  The volatile (aka
> non-persistent) properties are kept in a repository under
> /etc/svc/volatile, so the newly started svc.configd will be able to access
> them.  /etc/svc/volatile is a tmpfs file system, so that is why these
> properties go away on reboot.

I knew that.

> Hope that answers your question, but if not give me another try.

No, it doesn't.  What happens if the running repository is corrupted,
gone, whatever, when svc.configd is restarted?

Nico
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