Hi Jean,
please see my comments below.
Thank you,
Jan
> Requirements:
> Provide the ability to create/select/preserve/delete/resize an
extended partition and the logical drives.
I think we might need to clarify what is the scope of 'resize' operation -
based on the user experience with partitioning tools, it might be inferred
that data are preserved in resized partition. Is it what is meant here
or resize would refer to 'recreating with different size - no
data preserved' ?
> Provide the ability for an interactive installer to
create/preserve/delete/resize slices (sparc)
Why this is planned only for Sparc ? Is this because scenarios calling
for this functionality
are applicable only to Sparc platform ?
> Scope:
> Provide install library support to mark a logical drive as a Solaris2
partition and set it as the active partition.
I am not sure that this one is applicable - we might need to check with
extended partition team,
but it doesn't seem that mboot (boot loader installer puts into MBR in
current implementation) was
enhanced to search active logical drive. It seems ICT might need to put
GRUB stage 1 into MBR
instead of mboot if Solaris is installed on logical drive as stated in
installgrub(1M) man page:
...
-m Installs GRUB stage1 on the master boot sector
interactively. You must use this option if Solaris is
installed on an extended partition.
...
> Out of scope:
It seems that other installer technologies (text installer, AI) are out
of scope of this project and are to be handled by text installer and AI
projects respectively - might this assumption be correct ? I think
it might be helpful to capture this here.
> Update fdisk to use libdiskmgt extended partition utilities
To be honest, I am not quite sure if this requirement is related to
this project, since it seems that Solaris fdisk(1M) was enhanced to handle
extended partitions. How would be libdiskmgt engaged and how it would
help to address requirements of this project ?
Jean McCormack wrote:
>
> I have posted the Extended Partition support requirements and scope at:
>
> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Extended_Partition_Support/EP_Reqts_Scope/
>
>
>
> Please review and provide comments by 5:00 pm MT Wednesday, July 13.
>
> Jean
>
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