Ethan Quach wrote: > > > 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?
Actually, we will be talking about just this issue in todays meeting. It is supposed to be only 1 Solaris fdisk partition, but as you note people have hacked there way in to other configurations. sarah
