* Solaris Dummy <rudaa1 at yahoo.com> [2005-06-16 18:16]: > Please forgive me for not reading all the SMF related docs...
Sure. I wou;d be the first to admit that the manual pages are a bit of a pain to figure out the big picture from. > When does the SMF repository get built? i.e. with respect to a first > time OS install? Does it get built after the first reboot based on the > profile and use the newly built repository on subsequent reboots? The set of manifests is evaluated every boot. On the first boot after install almost all the manifests are new, and so the repository is effectively built then. > If so, will this repository get into a flar that is created on this > machine? Basically, is it possible to create a customized repository, > put it into a flar and clone multiple boxes via JumpStart? If this is > possible, do I still need the customized service.xml and site.xml > files on all my machines? Yes, the flash method you describe is supposed to work. (There is a small bug for the single archive being used across heterogeneous set of platforms.) You would want to keep the manifests and site profile on the system if your recovery practices involve recovering the machine without first recourse to an install server. If you always just reset the system to the flar, then you probably needn't include the extra files. (Is this based on conserving disk space?) - Stephen * Feel free to send in some criticism of smf_bootstrap(5), which is supposed to describe the assembly process. -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems stephen.hahn at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
