Dennis Clarke <blastwave at gmail.com> wrote:
> ALL :
>
> RE:
> http://svn.genunix.org/repos/opensolaris/trunk/usr/src/cmd/fmthard/fmthard.c
> and
> http://svn.genunix.org/repos/polaris/trunk/usr/src/uts/common/sys/dklabel.h
>
> For a long long time now I have been using 16 slices on the x86
> edition of Solaris. [1]
>
> This has worked fine and is quite stable and is based on the
> implemetation from the AT&T SVR4 spec it seems. Within the Sparc
> world we have always been limited to 8 slices with the backup slice
> being an overlap of the whole disk by convention. This seems to date
> way back to the SunOS days and BSD world. J??rg will probably be able
> to provide illumination on that perhaps.
As you seem to have 5.5.1, why don't you check what Sun was using?
Solaris sparc uses the 8 slice variant in order to be compatible
with SunOS-4.x. There is no need to do this for PPC, except if you like
to be able to mount disks from Solaris/sparc systems _before_ Solaris
has been upgraded to include generic partitionhandling code.
J?rg
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