[OpenIndiana-discuss] Bug or feature in SMF? "svcadm restart" vs "disable+enable"

[Jim Klimov]

On 2013-11-18 15:27, Jim Klimov wrote:
>    While testing my works on SMF inter-dependencies, I discovered
> that if I run svcadm restart, then the dependency service stops
> first, and only when its state changes to "offline", the dependent
> services begin to shut down. In the meanwhile, the dependency
> service begins to start-up, allowing the dependents to restart later.
>
>    Apparently, this is not good: for example, if the dependency is a
> database, and the dependent is a content-management server, the latter
> will not be able to flush dirty data (if it must), close the database
> connections and shut down cleanly - because the restarted DBMS is no
> longer available by the time the appserver begins to stop.


This bug bit me again, so I filed it for posterity:
https://www.illumos.org/issues/4395

//Jim Klimov