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I'm in the "Loves SMF but not a huge fan of systemd" camp SMF took over and replaced things that made sense for it to replace. It didn't attempt to replace eve

I'm in the "Loves SMF but not a huge fan of systemd" camp SMF took over and replaced things that made sense for it to replace. It didn't attempt to replace everything everywhere, which as best I can tell, seems to be the overall summary of the systemd roadmap. I would love SMF on Linux, but unfortunately it would be quite difficult to port over - it makes extensive use of contracts and doors.

bcantrill 11y ago
It would be interesting to know how large this demographic is: one of the interesting possibilities we have with LX-branded zones on SmartOS[1] is that "SMF for Linux" is a distinct possibility, albeit by bringing Linux to SMF rather than the other way around. [1] http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/illumos-lx http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/illumos-lx
- nrr 11y ago
  I'll go on the record and say that, as someone who uses SmartOS in production, I've thought about spending the time to try to coerce SMF to manage things running in LX-branded zones. If nothing else, it would make building reliable services a little more accessible to some of the systems administrators that I support who aren't quite in love with the idea of using runit and monit over SysV init and cron.
- cthalupa 11y ago
  Unfortunately LX-branded zones are a non-starter for me in any serious usage as long as NFS support isn't implemented :(
  - bingaling 11y ago
    Perhaps this is the support you need: https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/commit/9ecc4732a583c9fc51f50092f4f3d8e69fc75460 https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/commit/9ecc4732a583...
    - cthalupa 11y ago
      Looks like https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YeL_ZLTmrGJDYtI5LNif6Y9SITBFP7DNirYfsPfjBDM/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YeL_ZLTmrGJDYtI5LNif... needs to be updated