Darren J Moffat wrote:
> 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.
>
Ah, I didn't see that it doesn't support ZFS. That's a critical failing
IMO, and cause for derail. So, I'm derailing it now. A way to get this
back on fast track would be to include support for detection of ZFS volumes.
- Garrett
