* Dan Groves <Daniel.Groves at Sun.COM> [2007-04-10 11:41]: > Hi, > > I noticed at some point during boot the SMF repository is read-only. > How long does this last? The persistent portion of the repository is read-only until the root filesystem is remounted read-write. For a global zone, the repository becomes read-write when system/filesystem/usr comes online.
> Here's how I noticed it, and what I noticed. > > In working on the UV persistence work, I noticed at boot attempts to > persist link data as the result of a physical link attachment would fail > with error 1018 (SCF_ERROR_BACKEND_READONLY). These requests come in > very early, either when network/linkmgmtd starts up (a new service we're > adding as part of the UV work) or when network/physical starts up. > (Note that network/physical depends on network/linkmgmtd). I'm not sure > when exactly when the persistence requests come in, however, they come > in sometime when SMF starts either the network/linkmgmtd or > network/physical services. The tricky piece in early boot between network/ and system/filesystem/ services is preserving the kernel's initial interface setup so that diskless clients continue to work. You may have to hold on to your settings and retry committing them to the repository--or, if they are set every boot, instead consider treating them as non-persistent. - Stephen -- sch at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
