On 8/26/2013 17:49, Luca Ferrari wrote: > > If I remember right, SMF not only does a controlled startup of a > service, but also a controlled shutdown, that is something that seems > to me lacks in rc. In other words, once the network is going down, > also all daemons that rely on the network are, and stuff like that. > But I could be wrong.
It also can perform recovery when a daemon goes down and it has a detailed map of all the dependencies the service needs. I find it interesting that someone with experience with both finds them basically equivalent. Why would Sun Microsystems invest so much to replace a system with an equivalent one? That is not logical to me. John
