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 ? > > > 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. > ... Confirmed this. I've updated the Requirements accordingly.
Thanks, Jean > > > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >
