Nicolas Williams writes: > 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 > --
I'm going to need some help from the more experienced members of the SMF team on that question. I don't know what happens if svc.configd cannot access the repository. David or Liane, can you help out? tom
