It was pointed out to me that /var i mounted by fs-minimal. It should be OK to depend on filesystem/minimal instead of filesystem/local
Antonello On 03/12/10 09:48 AM, Antonello Cruz wrote: > resending to include smf-discuss in the recipient... > > Alan, > > /var may be mounted in a different filesystem, that's why you need to > depend on svc:/system/filesystem/local. > Have you tested your changes with /var in a different filesystem? > > Antonello > > On 03/11/10 05:56 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Two bugs against X point out that some of our SMF dependencies are a >> bit more demanding than need be, delaying our services in the boot >> order, and thus delaying the GDM startup that depends on them. >> >> I've made the changes suggested and posted a webrev to: >> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~alanc/X-smf-deps/ >> >> Does anyone know why we wouldn't want to change our dependencies to >> require filesystem/minimal instead of fileystem/local for these? >> >> For ogl-select, the actual dependency (as best I know) is that: >> - the kernel console driver be loaded >> - /usr/bin programs and scripts in /lib/... be available to run >> - the service be able to write to /var/run to make the links it creates >> and to /tmp for temp files it uses in processing >> >> I don't know why the network& name-service dependencies were in there >> previously - John, do you remember? >> >> For fc-cache, the actual dependencies (as best I know) is that: >> - /etc/fonts be available to read the list of font directories from >> configuration files ( /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and /etc/fonts/conf.d/* ) >> - the font directories listed in the configuration files be available >> to read the font data to put in the caches >> - /var/cache/fontconfig/ be writable to store the font caches >> >> In the configuration shipped in the system, all font directories are now >> located under /usr/share& /etc/X11/fontpath.d (which is full of symlinks >> to /usr/share/fonts subdirectories). We don't read fonts from NFS >> directories by default, but a customer could add another local filesystem >> or a nfs-mounted font directory to the configuration - is it >> acceptable to >> require that if they do so, they are responsible for changing the >> dependencies >> of fc-cache to depend on the appropriate milestone? >> > _______________________________________________ > smf-discuss mailing list > smf-discuss at opensolaris.org
