Thanks, Jan.  I appreciate the review.  We can add a check for the 
existence of the extvtoc functions and fallback to vtoc if they are not 
available.  It is what we did for nevada and S10U7 to provide live 
upgrade backward compatibility.  I wonder whether that is necessary 
given that there is always a dependency by install on the underlying 
OS.  I can't imagine that Caiman will be ported to any OS that doesn't 
support > 1 TB drives, zfs, zfs boot, ...  Thoughts?

Harold

jan damborsky wrote:
> Hi Harold,
>
> the changes look good to me.
>
> I have only one generic comment - I can see that the
> code switches to the new feature without checking if
> it is available and selecting the old path if it is not.
> I think this is fine, if we don't plan to backpublish
> this stuff into builds <99. However, as I am not sure
> what the plans are with respect to this, we might need
> to clarify.
>
> Thank you,
> Jan
>
>
> Harold Shaw wrote:
>> This is a code review for the following bugs:
>>
>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=3396
>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=3663
>>
>> This provides support for VTOC/fdisk on disks up to 2 TB.  The webrev 
>> is located at http://cr.opensolaris.org/~hshaw/slim_3396_3663/
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Harold
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