James Walker wrote: > I'm sponsoring this familiarity case for Peter Wang. The requested > release binding is minor. The man page has been posted in the > materials directory. > > Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI > This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems > 1. Introduction > 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: > disktype > 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: > Author: Peter Wang > 1.3 Date of This Document: > 15 June, 2009 > 4. Technical Description > > Summary > ======= > Disktype[1] is a program to detect the content format of a disk or disk > image. Initially the project team will be porting disktype "as is", since > disktype already provides good analysis of file systems, disk labels and > boot loaders, etc... However, the project team also plans to work with the > upstream communinty to extent disktype to support zfs and other Solaris and > OpenSolaris specific features.
If it can't detect ZFS on a disk then I don't think it is useful for OpenSolaris given that the root filesystem disk will be a ZFS disk. Not showing that ZFS is on a disk on Solaris/OpenSolaris system is actually dangerous as it could lead the user to assume the disk was empty. -- Darren J Moffat
