Jan Damborsky wrote:

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>
> Jens Deppe wrote:
>> Another use case is that on some systems one has to leave a small 
>> amount of disk space free for the hardware RAID controller to write 
>> it's config data. This space has to be outside of any fdisk 
>> partitions and has to be at the end of the disk. Perhaps an RFE might 
>> be for the partition size to be given as a negative number where the 
>> value indicates how much space to leave free.
>
> Assuming that the size of target disk is known and static,
> that could be also accomplished via AI manifest today.
>
> However, I can see this is perhaps not scalable when there
> are number of systems with target disks with different size.

Please also take a look at Derived Manifests (part of Automated
Installation project) which could address this kind of scenarios:

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/DerivedManifests

Jan


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