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 --