I'm working on modifying the smf methods that run early in system startup. This is related to booting from a zfs root file system. I'm trying to modify the /system/filesystem/usr method, but editing /lib/svc/method/fs-usr seems to have no effect. I'm booting to milestone=none, then enabling the services one by one to start the system. First I do:
# /sbin/svcadm enable svc:/system/filesystem/root:default and that works (and DOES show the effect of changes I've made to it). Then: # /sbin/svcadm enable svc:/system/filesystem/usr:default but modifications I've made to the fs-usr method have no effect. It's as if there's a copy of it stored someplace (in the repository?) that is running instead. Just to make sure of this, I edited /lib/svc/method/fs-usr to have "/sbin/uadmin 1 1" as the first line. So enabling the filesystem/usr service should have caused the system to reboot. But no. The service claimed to be "offline". So what am I missing? Why can I modify the fs-root method, but not the fs-usr method? Lori
