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 :)