Jan,

jan damborsky wrote:
> Hi William,
>
>
> On 02/13/09 15:36, William Schumann wrote:
>> New Automated Installer code allows creating partitions of different 
>> types.
>>
>> Place partition type value in element "partition_type".
>>
>> Allows "FAT32", "DOS16", "SOLARIS", "OPENSOLARIS" or any numeric type 
>> specified in fdisk.h
>
> I am not sure, we should distinguish between SOLARIS and OPENSOLARIS
> partition, since those both create partition with 0xbf ID. Maybe we
> should use only SOLARIS which is more generic.
Removed.
>
> disk_part.c
> -----------
> pinfo->content_type is being set according to the partition
> ID to be created. I am not sure, if we could assume this.
> The reason is that 'content_type' should reflect what the
> partition actually contains and should be realized by looking
> into the partition.
> Since only ID is to be created and no other actions are taken,
> I think that 'content_type' should be set to OM_CTYPE_UNKNOWN.
It appears that the content type is only relevant (at the moment) as 
input from Target Discovery for existing partitions.  I only set it in 
om_create_partition() to be consistent.  I will change the type to 
OM_CTYPE_UNKNOWN for non-Solaris, but leave OM_CTYPE_SOLARIS for Solaris 
partitions.

William

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