Jan Damborsky wrote: > Hi Jean, > > please see my comments below. > > Thank you, > Jan > > > > Requirements: > > Provide the ability to create/select/preserve/delete/resize an > extended partition and the logical drives. > > I think we might need to clarify what is the scope of 'resize' > operation - > based on the user experience with partitioning tools, it might be > inferred > that data are preserved in resized partition. Is it what is meant here > or resize would refer to 'recreating with different size - no > data preserved' ? > The data would not necessarily be preserved. > > > Provide the ability for an interactive installer to > create/preserve/delete/resize slices (sparc) > > Why this is planned only for Sparc ? Is this because scenarios calling > for this functionality > are applicable only to Sparc platform ? That was originally why I put that restriction. We touched on this briefly today and I believe I will remove the sparc designation. > > > Scope: > > Provide install library support to mark a logical drive as a > Solaris2 partition and set it as the active partition. > > I am not sure that this one is applicable - we might need to check > with extended partition team, > but it doesn't seem that mboot (boot loader installer puts into MBR in > current implementation) was > enhanced to search active logical drive. It seems ICT might need to > put GRUB stage 1 into MBR > instead of mboot if Solaris is installed on logical drive as stated in > installgrub(1M) man page: > > ... > -m Installs GRUB stage1 on the master boot sector > interactively. You must use this option if Solaris is > installed on an extended partition. > ... I will look into this further. > > > Out of scope: > > It seems that other installer technologies (text installer, AI) are out > of scope of this project and are to be handled by text installer and AI > projects respectively - might this assumption be correct ? I think > it might be helpful to capture this here. Definitely out of scope. I can add that. > > > Update fdisk to use libdiskmgt extended partition utilities > > To be honest, I am not quite sure if this requirement is related to > this project, since it seems that Solaris fdisk(1M) was enhanced to > handle > extended partitions. How would be libdiskmgt engaged and how it would > help to address requirements of this project ? Sanjay and I talked about the fact that with our libdiskmgt changes there might be code in both fdisk and libdiskmgt that essentially perform the same functionality. This code really belongs in libdiskmgt. It would be nice if we could change fdisk but there just isn't time.
Jean > > > Jean McCormack wrote: >> >> I have posted the Extended Partition support requirements and scope at: >> >> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Extended_Partition_Support/EP_Reqts_Scope/ >> >> >> >> Please review and provide comments by 5:00 pm MT Wednesday, July 13. >> >> Jean >> >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >
