Harold Shaw wrote:
> Thanks, Jan.  I appreciate the review.  We can add a check for the 
> existence of the extvtoc functions and fallback to vtoc if they are not 
> available.  It is what we did for nevada and S10U7 to provide live 
> upgrade backward compatibility.  I wonder whether that is necessary 
> given that there is always a dependency by install on the underlying 
> OS.  I can't imagine that Caiman will be ported to any OS that doesn't 
> support > 1 TB drives, zfs, zfs boot, ...  Thoughts?
> 

Unlikely.  I think it's OK as-is.

Dave


> Harold
> 
> jan damborsky wrote:
>> Hi Harold,
>>
>> the changes look good to me.
>>
>> I have only one generic comment - I can see that the
>> code switches to the new feature without checking if
>> it is available and selecting the old path if it is not.
>> I think this is fine, if we don't plan to backpublish
>> this stuff into builds <99. However, as I am not sure
>> what the plans are with respect to this, we might need
>> to clarify.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Jan
>>
>>
>> Harold Shaw wrote:
>>> This is a code review for the following bugs:
>>>
>>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=3396
>>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=3663
>>>
>>> This provides support for VTOC/fdisk on disks up to 2 TB.  The webrev 
>>> is located at http://cr.opensolaris.org/~hshaw/slim_3396_3663/
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Harold
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