Sarah,
Sarah Jelinek wrote:
> Hi William,
>
> Looks ok to me. As we discussed the comments on line 57 in td_be.c
> don't match the new functionality. Which you have fixed. The only
> other question I have is if you get what you think is a slice name,
> and it doesn't conform to anything that is available on the system,
> what happens to that data? Does it get discarded?
If it is not an exact match on a slice name that TD has just discovered,
it will be discarded.
William
>
> thanks,
> sarah
> ***
>
> William Schumann wrote:
>> TD had been using be_list() to find Solaris BEs. This necessitated
>> importing root pools before be_list() could assess them.
>>
>> Returning root pools to the pre-imported state, done with 'zpool
>> export', makes them unbootable until imported once more. Also,
>> importing them with a different name, done presently in TD, leaves
>> them unbootable later.
>>
>> To circumvent this problem, it was decided to parse the output of
>> 'zpool list', noting the slices found, and signaling that a root pool
>> was found on the corresponding disk.
>>
>> This code looks for disk names in the first column of the output,
>> verifying them in the main TD module, and passing some text to
>> indicate this to the user when the mouse hovers over the disk in
>> screen 2 of the installer.
>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1021
>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~wmsch/bug-1021/
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