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Subject: Re: WITNESS weirdness
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Eirik Øverby wrote:

> # sysctl debug.witness.watch=1
> debug.witness.watch: 0
> sysctl: debug.witness.watch: Invalid argument
> 
> Am I supposed to be able to turn witness off runtime, but not back on 
> again?

Yes, that is working as designed.  Witness needs to run continuously to 
track state.

Kris