Frank Hofmann wrote:
...
What Pavan's project does is to allow putting the Solaris VTOC
"elsewhere" (not into a place accessible via a device node on
Solaris/x86) and add detection code into the disk target driver to
locate the VTOC "elsewhere".
I.e. you'll be able to have "sX" device nodes _without_ having any
primary "pX" device node of type SUNIXOS/SUNIXOS2 that has a Solaris
VTOC in it.
You're not going to "see" the device node anymore that has the VTOC in it.
The focus on VTOC's seems misguided; VTOC's are so "yesterday", with all
their limitations. We're much more interested in moving Solaris
installation towards the ZFS pooled model. That seems to get even
better for the user if we can place the pools into general "pX" devices,
thus my interest in making that a priority. The current two-layer
partitioning model that Solaris imposes seems to be a very large
usability problem for those coming from all the other systems which
don't have it. So I'd rather see if we can start designing it out, not
embedding it yet further.
I'd suggest you simply scope the project to add support so that
OpenSolaris can see, create, and use filesystems on extended
partitions just as with primary partitions. Installation to them is,
as you noted later, a distribution-specific issue at this point,
anyway, and should be a logically separate project.
I'd give _that_ a +infty. But that's not what is being talked about.
I'm hoping we can move it in that direction with this discussion.
Dave
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