Thanks for your analysis of the issue. The idea behind not assuming a default label when there is an error on reading the first block is to allow for data recovery and to prevent any data loss . If a disk has had a valid MBR, and for some reason now read of first block fails, there might be data on the disk that can be recovered. If we do assume a default label, the user (or admin utilities) might not know about the problem in first block and continue assuming s2 is the Whole Solaris partition.
Any particular reason the I/O is failing on the first block here? --shidokht This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ ufs-discuss mailing list [email protected]
