On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, William Schumann wrote: > Posted design document for the Validator, which I refer to as the Disk Layout > Validator, for initial review. > > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/CUE_docs > Caiman Unified Engine Disk Layout Validator(.odt) > <http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Project+caiman/CUE_docs/CUDvalidator.odt>
I have some general comments (please ignore some or all of these if they have been brought up by others) - - Section 3 talks about the scenarios that will be checked. Will the validator also validate some of the reserved slices such as s2 (backup), s8 (boot), s9 (alt, on x86)? - If the disk layout doesn't validate, does it just return a failure code or does it also return a proposed Disk object that *would* succeed validation? In thinking about how the validator would plug into the text installer, it would seem that unless the validator returns a proposed layout, the installer would be pretty clueless as to what it should do with a failure. - Will the validator also check for existence of zfs root pools on the disk object? If not, could you please mention somewhere that root pool validation is not a goal of this validator? Alok
