Jan Damborsky wrote: > Jan Damborsky wrote: > > [...] > >> >> Jens Deppe wrote: >>> Another use case is that on some systems one has to leave a small >>> amount of disk space free for the hardware RAID controller to write >>> it's config data. This space has to be outside of any fdisk >>> partitions and has to be at the end of the disk. Perhaps an RFE might >>> be for the partition size to be given as a negative number where the >>> value indicates how much space to leave free. >> >> Assuming that the size of target disk is known and static, >> that could be also accomplished via AI manifest today. >> >> However, I can see this is perhaps not scalable when there >> are number of systems with target disks with different size. > > Please also take a look at Derived Manifests (part of Automated > Installation project) which could address this kind of scenarios: > > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/DerivedManifests
This looks very promising! I'm really excited to see that functionality coming to AI. --Jens
