On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 07:34:03AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> >If it can't detect ZFS on a disk then I don't think it is useful for 
> >OpenSolaris given that the root filesystem disk will be a ZFS disk.  
> >Not showing that ZFS is on a disk on Solaris/OpenSolaris system is 
> >actually dangerous as it could lead the user to assume the disk was 
> >empty.
> >
> Ah, I didn't see that it doesn't support ZFS.  That's a critical failing 
> IMO, and cause for derail.  So, I'm derailing it now.  A way to get this 
> back on fast track would be to include support for detection of ZFS volumes.

I think that was too quick :)  The i-team might well agree to patch
disktype to use libfstyp as a source of information...  I've asked for
that, now let's give them a chance to tell us if they're willing to do
that :)

Reply via email to