>> We have a few questions for the SMF folks, which is why they're CC-d >> this mail. Is our use of SMF sounds reasonable? Do we need to make >> the linkmgmtd service depend on anything? We didn't know how SMF >> persists configuration information, and we didn't know if we needed to >> include a dependency here to make sure we can access the configuration >> data. > > It'd be a good idea to have a dependency on manifest-import. This > service generates the repository content on first reboot following the > installation and gets updated on upgrades. Services attempts to access > repository before manifest-import completes may get errors because > properties are not populated or old property values. The drawback of > having this dependency is the service may come up later. > Hmm, I saw that manifest-import depends on device/local and filesystem/usr. That will cause the dependency recursion as the device/local needs to have the dependency on the linkname service, in order to get the link name when the network devices attaches.
- Cathy
