[OpenIndiana-discuss] Question about halting a zone

[paolo marcheschi]

Hi
If the Mysql service is started using SMF services, the halt is Safe, 
otherwise you have to stop the service.

Ciao
Paolo

On 05/07/12 15:57, Mark Creamer wrote:
> I was reading about how to update non-global zones, and found a
> Solaris document which says the following:
>
> 1. Update the Global Zone
> 2. Reboot
> 3. Halt the non-global zone   (zoneadm -z myzone halt)
> 4. Detach the zone  (zoneadm -z myzone detach)
> 5. Re-attach the zone with -u  (zoneadm -z myzone attach -u)
>
> In my testing, this seems to go fine. My question is, what happens
> when you halt a zone - for example, if MySQL is running on that
> non-global zone, should you stop it first before halting the zone to
> avoid the risk of corrupting data? Or is a halt safe without stopping
> any running services first?
>
> Thanks
>