Susan Sohn wrote: > Hi Jean, > > On 07/14/09 05:00, Jan Damborsky wrote: >> 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 ? > > I thought that we had discussed this in a meeting a couple of weeks > ago and had decided it would be for both sparc and x86? I'll remove the restriction. > >> > 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. > > The text installer project will be responsible for the UI changes to > handle extended partitions, but there is a dependency on this > (extended partition) project for the underlying library changes. There > is also the expectation that the text installer will provide similar > capability to the GUI installer wrt panel/screen functionality. I > second Jan's idea to add text install and AI changes to the out of > scope list, to clarify the boundaries. Will do.
Jean > > Sue > >> > 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> caiman-discuss mailing list >>> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >
