Dave Miner wrote: > Niall Power wrote: >> More comments/questions after having spent more timing examining the >> disk layout modelling:) >> >> 4.1.1: >> The data model assumes that only one VTOC (DiskSlices_t) can exist >> on disk. On X86, the DiskSlice_t is associated with a parition. Will >> the assumption on X86 that only one partition can contain a VTOC hold >> true >> in the future? Will ZFS make this irrelevant? >> > > It's likely to hold true for a while, at least; there aren't any firm > plans that I'm aware of which would change this.
But the configuration exists nonetheless. People have hacked their way into creating a disk with multiple solaris fdisk partitions, each with an instance of solaris installed. I suppose how we want to handle this in dwarf is the question. Right now, the existence of two solaris fdisk partitions on a disk is detectable, but only one VTOC is mapped by the driver. The current GUI installer doesn't handle this very gracefully (makes you delete one.) Are we doing the same here in dwarf? > ZFS doesn't affect it > at all, as we'll still be using a VTOC to contain the root pools. > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
