On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:06:27AM -0700, James Walker wrote: > Disktype[1] is a program to detect the content format of a disk or disk > image. Initially the project team will be porting disktype "as is", since > disktype already provides good analysis of file systems, disk labels and > boot loaders, etc... However, the project team also plans to work with the > upstream communinty to extent disktype to support zfs and other Solaris and > OpenSolaris specific features.
> [1] http://disktype.sourceforge.net/ Sounds like this and fstyp(1M) could use some integration. Specifically, I think making disktype use libfstyp(3LIB) on Solaris as an additional source of information would be useful. I think the reverse (making fstyp/libfstyp use disktype) is not obviously useful, since fstyp/libfstyp is more general and since it's probably OK for fstyp/libfstyp to know only about filesystems that are supported on Solaris. But I may be wrong about this, and it may be useful for libfstyp to learn about many more filesystems. Nico --
