Darren J Moffat wrote: > W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > >>> AFAIK this is what the project aims. An Extended >>> partition is >>> basically a container that can accommodate one or >>> more logical >>> partitions and we need the ability to have a >>> logical partition of type >>> Solaris2 (0xbf) and have OpenSolaris booting from >>> it. >>> This IMHO removes a barrier to OpenSolaris >>> adoption since people >>> already having multiple OSes would not be forced to >>> free up a Primary >>> partition to have OpenSolaris installed. >>> egards, >>> Moinak. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> opensolaris-discuss mailing list >>> opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org >>> >> >> Another MAJOR advantage is that, from then on, Solaris will be able >> to mount extended partitions. From my own experience, this is >> probably more significant. > > > You can't mount an extended partition you can mount a file system > inside an extended partition but not the partition itself. > > If the extended partition contains a FAT file system then the pcfs > filesystem driver can do this already today (for the most part). >
Still wrong: --->> You can't mount an extended partition, you can mount a file system inside a "slice" (or "logical drive") inside an extended partition, but not the partition itself, nor the slice itself. -MB _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
