>> 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 feel free to file RFE for this.
I have filed 13147 for this: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=13147 --Jens
