can we get some interaction between halt/reboot and bhyve?

[Neel Natu]

Hi Paul

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:18 PM, Paul Vixie <paul at redbarn.org> wrote:
>
>
> Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> I haven't tried them, but Michael Dexter has written more comprehensive
>> rc.d scripts from bhyve:
>>
>> http://vmrc.bsd.lv/
>
> these look good but i'm waiting for man pages, while meanwhile i bake my
> own toolset.
>
>> rc.d scripts work well if you can live with the normal shutdown process
>> invoking rc.d scripts.
>> For my uses, I can live with shutdown and rc.d.
>
> so can i except in emergencies.
>
>> If you want to halt/reboot/poweroff, then you still have the original
>> problem that Paul pointed out.
>
> reboot.c currently detects paging. is there a way to have it detect disk
> i/o in general?
>
> note, 30 seconds isn't always enough. on a DCC server with 4GB mmap()'d,
> i've run out of time. so, a sysctl for both the minimum (currently 5
> seconds) and maximum (currently 30 seconds) reboot i/o drain period
> would be great. i would code these and submit them if these changes were
> welcomed.
>

Yes, please do.

best
Neel

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