On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:33:41PM +0100, Moritz Willers wrote:
Hi Moritz!
> The system has mirrored root disks and has the metadb replicas that
> go with it. That does not imply that I need a running rpc.metad,
> does it? I never understood what that daemon does, but the manpage
> seems to imply it's there to *remotely* manage disksets. We don't
> use disksets and we certainly won't want them to be remotely managed.
Yes, it's a service for remotely managing metasets.
> I want a secured system with reduced services - i.e. no rpcbind, no
> rpc.metad, and a lot more disabled - but mirrored root disks for
> redundancy. Surely that must be possible. Certainly always has been.
>
> What in SVM thinks that it needs to enable rpc.metad just because I
> have metadb replicas?
This:
static char
*svm_core_svcs[] = {
"system/metainit:default",
"system/metasync:default",
"system/mdmonitor:default",
"network/rpc/meta:default",
NULL
};
That svc:/network/rpc/meta:default is listed there is likely a bug.
Nico
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